Latest Tony Dungy Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm probably going to be an Indianapolis fan.

  Tony Dungy

• My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of Lofton Greene - he was a guy that my dad was familiar with. He was from our hometown. And I watched the game and I said I didn't see this guy doing a lot of coaching. And my dad told me, well, it's just like a teacher - which he was - he said if you do a good job teaching during the week, when they take the test on Friday, that's not the time you have to do a lot of demonstrative things.

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  Basketball, Friday, Teacher

• 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.

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  Team, Believe, Separation

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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

  Teacher, People, Guy

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Michael Vick is a work in progress. I think he really is wanting to do the right thing. I think the Philadelphia Eagles have been a great organization for him. He's had some ups and downs. He still has to learn to not put himself in, maybe bad situations, in terms of personal life and friends, and that kind of thing. But all in all, I think he's growing every day.

  Tony Dungy

  Thinking, Progress, Kind

• 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.

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  Father, Kids, Decision

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

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  Football, Team, Fields

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

• 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.

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  Games, Careers, Defense

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

• 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

  Team, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

• The biggest thing you need to be successful with it is a quarterback who wants to be involved in the decision-making process and not just merely want to execute plays sent in to him.

  Tony Dungy

  Successful, Play, Decision

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

• 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

  Simple, Player, Agency

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

• 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.

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  School, Two, Doubt

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

• 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.

  Tony Dungy

  Player, Discipline, Weakness

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

• 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.

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  Reading, Young

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

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  Athlete, College, Skills

• 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

  Sports, Book, Athlete