Top 140 Tony Dungy Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Integrity, the choice between what’s convenient and what’s right.”

— Tony Dungy

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2. “You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.”

— Tony Dungy

3. “No excuses. No explanations.”

— Tony Dungy

4. “Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.”

— Tony Dungy

5. “Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader.”

— Tony Dungy

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

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7. “Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.”

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8. “We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact – for good.”

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9. “It’s about the journey – mine and yours – and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.”

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10. “I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn’t always mean equal.”

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11. “You don’t win on emotion. You win on execution.”

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12. “Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I’m looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average.”

— Tony Dungy

13. “The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.”

— Tony Dungy

14. “We are all important, but we are not indispensable.”

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15. “Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. Matthew 6:33.”

— Tony Dungy

16. “It’s the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.”

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17. “We often can’t see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.”

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18. “Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you.”

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

— Tony Dungy

20. “Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.”

— Tony Dungy

21. “If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.”

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22. “Don’t worry about your platform; focus on your impact.”

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23. “Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.”

— Tony Dungy

24. “How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.”

— Tony Dungy

25. “You can have an impact anywhere you are.”

— Tony Dungy

26. “Integrity doesn’t come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don’t.”

— Tony Dungy

27. “Things will go wrong at times. You can’t always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better.”

— Tony Dungy

28. “It’s easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you’re in the trenches.”

— Tony Dungy

29. “Champions don’t do extraordinary things, They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.”

— Tony Dungy

30. “God’s definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.”

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31. “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

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

— Tony Dungy

33. “Take a moment to think about your answer to this question: Am I prepared to have great success and not get any credit for it?”

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34. “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

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

— Tony Dungy

36. “Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.”

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37. “Everyone, everywhere, needs encouragement on a regular basis. Start with people you know and add to your list.”

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38. “If you start making excuses to cut out the things that are important because of urgent circumstances, it will become a habit, and you’ll start cutting them out regularly.”

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39. “If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, to lift and encourage them, to share moments of understanding with them, and to spend time with them, not just shout down at them from on high.”

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40. “When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference.”

— Tony Dungy

41. “First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it’s not something I went through. I’m still grieving.”

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42. “Respect isn’t a right. We aren’t entitled to it, and we can never earn it by demanding it. It’s something we earn because of our character – and by giving it to others. If we want to be respected, we have to show ourselves to be worthy of it, not by our status, possessions, or accomplishments, but by honesty, integrity, and responsibility.”

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

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44. “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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45. “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

46. “Talent is God-given; be thankful. Praise is man-given; be humble. Conceit is self-given; be careful. Dave Driscoll.”

— Tony Dungy

47. “But there’s no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.”

— Tony Dungy

48. “The fundamental keys to the culture of any organization can only be achieved when everyone is on the same page.”

— Tony Dungy

49. “If you’re a leader, people’s lives should be better because of the influence you’ve had along the way.”

— Tony Dungy

50. “What’s important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.”

— Tony Dungy