Tony Dungy Quotes about Leadership - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

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

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

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

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.

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

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