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Tony Dungy
American
Coach
Born:
Oct 6
,
1955
Best
Great
Me
People
Think
You
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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
Success
Good
Leadership
Better
Good Leadership
Secret
Members
About
Making
Success Is
Workers
Your
Team
Lives
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
You
Yourself
Better
Sorry
Situation
Complain
About
Feel
Make
How
Lot
Gonna
Things
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.
Tony Dungy
Faith
Me
People
Calm
Christian
Sidelines
Everything
See
Guy
Know
Look
Affects
Want
Them
Coaching
Cool
Cool Guy
Christian Faith
I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
Tony Dungy
Wisdom
God
Day
Strength
Guidance
Grace
Single
Through
Single Day
Without
Get
We have so many young men, especially, who are growing up without their dads. We have to fill that void. We have to do a better job helping young people see what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman. And then, somehow, we have to put that family structure back together.
Tony Dungy
Family
Man
Together
Woman
People
Better
Job
Men
Young
Back
Be A Man
See
Somehow
Structure
Better Job
Void
Put
Without
Up
Family Structure
Young Men
Young People
Then
Means
Who
Helping
Many
Fill
Dads
Growing
Growing Up
You should never be defined by what you do, by the things you have; you've got to define yourself by who you are and who you impact and how you impact people. And that's the thing I try to get across to my players.
Tony Dungy
You
Yourself
People
Try
Define
Defined
Impact
Never
Got
How
Get
Should
Across
Who
Thing
Things
Players
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
Win
Wrong Thing
Doctors
Everything
Kids
Bad
Super
Super Bowl
Lawyers
Perfect
Football
Wrong
Perfectly
Football Season
Like
Bowl
Go
Going
May
Just
Mean
Plan
Your
Season
Thing
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
Unforeseen
Back
Everything
Some
Some Things
Perfect
Bounce
Deal
Go
Losses
Going
Little
Things
You can have an impact anywhere you are.
Tony Dungy
You
Impact
Anywhere
Balance provides the chance for longevity. You can be a champion at work and at home.
Tony Dungy
Work
Home
You
Balance
Champion
Longevity
Provides
Chance
Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.
Tony Dungy
God
Sometimes
Think
Way
Circus
Respond
Another
Another Way
Wants
Show
The best leaders are following Christ. That's the best leader you can follow.
Tony Dungy
Best
You
Christ
Leader
Follow
Following
Leaders
Lovie Smith and I are not only the first two African-Americans but Christian coaches showing that you can win doing it the Lord's way and we're more proud of that.
Tony Dungy
You
Win
First
Christian
Way
More
Only
Smith
Proud
Lord
Doing
Coaches
Showing
Two
I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done.
Tony Dungy
People
Think
Guess
Get
Done
Flattered
Help
Things
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
Best
Win
School
College
Every
Think
Way
High
High School
High School And College
Guys
Winners
Winning
Through
Making
Won
Just
Happen
Games
Who
Level
Things
Things Happen
Player
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
Great
You
Opportunity
Think
Trade
Pass
Quarterback
Just
Away
Need
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
Son
Sometimes
Same Thing
Else
Say
Impact
Someone
More
He
Know
Hears
Same
Listen
Anything
Little
Who
Thing
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
People
College
Seen
Leader
Young
Our
Way
Some
Football
Football Coach
Leaders
Major
Like
Know
Look
Campus
Anyone
Young People
Coach
Reason
Program
We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.
Tony Dungy
Nation
Believe
Difficulties
Our
Top
Facing
List
Right
Number
I wish Michael Sam nothing but the best in his quest to become a star in the NFL,and I am confident he will get the opportunity to show what he can do on the field.
Tony Dungy
Best
Opportunity
Will
Wish
Become
Field
Nothing
He
Am
His
Quest
Michael
Get
Sam
Confident
Show
Star
My heart's toward youth ministry, but I don't know. I never would have thought I would have written a book. And God kind of directed that. So we'll see what the next is.
Tony Dungy
God
Heart
Youth
Book
Thought
Kind
Would
Ministry
See
Directed
Never
Written
Toward
Know
Next
I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents.
Tony Dungy
Mom
Parents
Blessed
Situation
Think
Back
Say
Would
Had
Feel
Particular
Look
Always
Done
Just
Them
Really
Mom And Dad
Dad
Suggested
As humans, we don't know what we should do. We don't have those instincts like God has given animals. We have to see to know where we are going. It is just a natural human emotion to look for people to emulate.
Tony Dungy
God
Natural
People
Animals
Those
See
Given
Emotion
Instincts
Like
Know
Look
Emulate
Going
Human
Just
Where
Should
Humans
I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now.
Tony Dungy
Life
Leadership
Me
Sports
Leader
Benefiting
Kind
Put
Always
Got
Quarterback
Up
Very
Roles
Grade
Ended
Sixth
Being
Fifth
Teams
Now
Early
That's the key to defending any quarterback: to make them throw before they want to throw.
Tony Dungy
Key
Before
Throw
Make
Quarterback
Any
Want
Them
Defending
I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.
Tony Dungy
Time
Good
Everybody
Know
Well
Motivation
Gets
Want
Coach
Team
Help
Players
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