Tony Dungy Quotes About Leadership

Quotes about: Leadership

• 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

  Leadership, Team, Nfl

  "The Mentor Leader". Book by Tony Dungy, www.today.com. 2010.

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.229, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Winning

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.95, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Journey

• 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

  Leadership, Football, Team

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.268, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Mean, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.19, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Player

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Believe

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Team

• 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

  Leadership, Football, Cutting

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.217, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• 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

  Leadership, Football, Thinking

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

• If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.159, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• If we do what we do without panicking, we can accomplish great things.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.238, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Winning

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.131, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• There are certain bridges that are not worth crossing, no matter what others think. Loyalty and relationships are important.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Loyalty, Football

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.100, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Fall

• Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Opportunity

• 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

  Leadership, Football, Jobs

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.89, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.189, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Mean

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.180, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• God allows us to feel pain for a reason: to protect us.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Pain

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Grief

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.263, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, College

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