110+ Tony Dungy Quotes On Integrity, Inspiring And Innovative

Tony Dungy is an American football coach and former professional football player. He was the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1996 to 2001 and the Indianapolis Colts from 2002 to 2008. Dungy was the first African-American head coach to win the Super Bowl when he led the Colts to victory in Super Bowl XLI. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Tony Dungy on leadership, integrity, inspiring.

Top 10 Tony Dungy Quotes

1. The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
2. 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.
3. You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.
4. We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.
5. 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.
6. I've said all along that God is in control.
7. A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.
8. 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?
9. 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.
10. Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

Tony Dungy Short Quotes

• You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you have got to hang though together
• Character is the glue that bonds solid and meaningful relationships
• Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.
• You can have an impact anywhere you are.
• False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
• Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.
• Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.
• Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.
• No excuses. No explanations.
• We need somebody to give us a chance.

Tony Dungy Quotes About Leadership

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). — Tony Dungy

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

What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change. — Tony Dungy

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

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

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. — Tony Dungy

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

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond. — Tony Dungy

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied. — Tony Dungy

Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor. — Tony Dungy

Tony Dungy Quotes About Integrity

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. — Tony Dungy

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

Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity and overvalues the outcome at the expense of the people as well as the process. — Tony Dungy

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

Tony Dungy Quotes About Inspiring

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select. — Tony Dungy

And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation. — Tony Dungy

We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played. — Tony Dungy

We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important. — Tony Dungy

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential. — Tony Dungy

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving. — Tony Dungy

God allows us to feel pain for a reason: to protect us. — Tony Dungy

When it's over, it's over is part of football's greatest appeal to me. When a game ends, win or lose, it's time to prepare for the next one. — Tony Dungy

They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important. — Tony Dungy

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation. — Tony Dungy

Tony Dungy Quotes About Leader.

Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader. — Tony Dungy

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. — Tony Dungy

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

Tony Dungy Quotes About People

What will people remember us for? Are other people’s lives better because we lived? Did we make a difference? Did we use to the fullest the gifts and abilities God gave us? Did we give our best effort, and did we do it for the right reasons? — Tony Dungy

That's the difference between the NCAA and the NFL right now. They've got to step up and say, 'We're going to do the right thing. We're going to hire qualified people. We're going to hire the best man for the job regardless of what boosters or anyone else has to say.' — Tony Dungy

Don't shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don't get to live. — Tony Dungy

I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen. — Tony Dungy

The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by. — Tony Dungy

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. — Tony Dungy

If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, to lift and encourage them, to share moments of understanding with them, and to spend time with them, not just shout down at them from on high. — Tony Dungy

Chuck Noll knew how he could help people. He was a teacher. He was a guy that was very good at selecting people, getting them to fit in. He wasn't the guy that was going to sit there and motivate you, intrinsically. That wasn't what he was best at. So he hired people that were good at that. — Tony Dungy

I enjoy talking to young people, and talking to people about helping young people. That part is not a chore. It's pretty fun, and something I like to do because I think it's important. — Tony Dungy

If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen. — Tony Dungy

Tony Dungy Quotes About Perfect

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with. — Tony Dungy

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect. — Tony Dungy

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. — Tony Dungy

Tony Dungy Quotes About Making

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better? — Tony Dungy

As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best decisions every time out. And life is a learning experience. — Tony Dungy

I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working with half the team and you go through the game-planning and decision-making processes. — Tony Dungy

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games. — Tony Dungy

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless. — Tony Dungy

When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference — Tony Dungy

It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job. — Tony Dungy

The game has changed since the '70s as more coaches have looked at ways to make it tougher on defenses. But I'm glad my career turned out the way it did - I would have never gotten a chance to learn the defensive side of the ball. — Tony Dungy

There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values. — Tony Dungy

I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see. — Tony Dungy

Tony Dungy Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match. — Tony Dungy

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

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

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

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

We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best. — Tony Dungy

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. — Tony Dungy

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. — Tony Dungy

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

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

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. — Tony Dungy

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

Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together. — Tony Dungy

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up. — Tony Dungy

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems. — Tony Dungy

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

The regular season games are much more intense. And also, I believe that in 16 games, some teams separate themselves. The good teams separate themselves from the not-so-good teams. The longer the season is, the bigger that separation will get. — Tony Dungy

I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways. — Tony Dungy

It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches. — Tony Dungy

God’s definition of success is really one of significance-the significant difference our lives can make in the lives of others. The significance doesn’t show up in won-loss records, long resumes, or the trophies gathering dust on our mantels. It’s found in the hearts and lives of those we’ve come across who are in some way better because of the way we lived. — Tony Dungy

We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players. — Tony Dungy

I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport. — Tony Dungy

When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it. — Tony Dungy

I would want America to know our kids need us. Spend as much time with your kids as you can. Enjoy them. Be with them. Hug your children; You never know when it will be the last time. — Tony Dungy

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

I enjoy watching football on TV. Many times I can visualize the whole field, even on the TV screen, because I still know enough about what the teams are doing. — Tony Dungy

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important. — Tony Dungy

I always liked to be fairly simple because you could get more players ready to play quickly. If you lose players to free agency, injuries, etc., it is easier to get young players ready to play in a less complex system. — Tony Dungy

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is. — Tony Dungy

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. — Tony Dungy

Don't worry about your platform; focus on your impact. — Tony Dungy

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. — Tony Dungy

Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures. — Tony Dungy

When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, 'I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.' He told me, 'We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.' — Tony Dungy

But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact. — Tony Dungy

We want to enjoy our families and the hype leading up to the game. — Tony Dungy

At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal. — Tony Dungy

And one game, as we know, can cost you a lot. — Tony Dungy

We've got guys who aren't wrapping guys up... No matter how hard you hit them, you've still got to wrap them up. — Tony Dungy

When I was younger I only read sports books. I loved the biographies that told how athletes developed. When I got into coaching, I did start to read more instructional books, but I was always more interested in the people behind the ideas. — Tony Dungy

To win those big games you're going to have to complete some third-down passes, you're going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game. — Tony Dungy

I can't very well preach unity and tell the guys we're all in this together and everyone's important, then cut a guy because we might improve by one percent if we bring in someone else. — Tony Dungy

What you do is not as important as how you do it. — Tony Dungy

We are all important, but we are not indispensable. — Tony Dungy

Gay marriage and who should be on a football team have nothing to do with each other. — Tony Dungy

Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve. — Tony Dungy

We're not hitting on all cylinders, defensively. When we're playing good, I'll let you know. — Tony Dungy

There are two schools of thought. You can be basic and spend all your time on what your opponents are going to do. Or, you can be very multiple and complex, put a lot of doubt in your opponents' minds and create problems for them with the volume of things you do. — Tony Dungy

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 — Tony Dungy

I wouldn’t have taken him. Not because I don’t believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn’t want to deal with all of it. It’s not going to be totally smooth things will happen. — Tony Dungy

I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength. — Tony Dungy

I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done. — Tony Dungy

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

Life Lessons by Tony Dungy

1. Tony Dungy teaches us the importance of hard work, dedication, and having a strong moral compass.
2. He also emphasizes the importance of treating others with respect and understanding, regardless of their background or beliefs.
3. Finally, Dungy's work shows us that success is achievable through collaboration, communication, and a commitment to excellence.