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.

• 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

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.171, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Team

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Pain

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.182, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• 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

  Leadership, Sports, Football

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.51, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Journey

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.259, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Jobs

• 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

  Leadership, Football, Fun

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.143, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.212, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Tony Dungy

  Motivational, Leadership, Football

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.144, 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

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