Tony Dungy Quotes

Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.

It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.

You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average.

I said all along that God is in control.

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.

Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.

Take a moment to think about your answer to this question: Am I prepared to have great success and not get any credit for it?

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you have got to hang though together

DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter

Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you.

I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.

We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good.

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still His plan.

Long-term success requires faith-faith that your efforts to plan and execute the process will lead to the desired outcome.

Be successful not just in what you do, but in who you are.

Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

Character is the glue that bonds solid and meaningful relationships

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

He's probably the hardest-working guy I've been around who has great ability. Overachievers work hard because they have to. Peyton has rare talent, but chooses to push himself like he doesn't.

If we have trouble hearing Him, He will faithfully work in our lives until we are pointed in the direction He wants us to go.

I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.

I realized that I needed to be more like the shepherd than the hired hand in protecting my team.

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.

There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they're doing.

Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone.

I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.