Tony Dungy Quotes

• 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

• 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

• You can have an impact anywhere you are.

  Tony Dungy

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We’re not hitting on all cylinders, defensively. When we’re playing good, I’ll let you know.

  Tony Dungy

• We want to enjoy our families and the hype leading up to the game.

  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

• We need somebody to give us a chance.

  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

• 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

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

  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

• 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

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

  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

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

  Tony Dungy

• 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.

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• 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.

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Birth:	6th October, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Coach, Football Player

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