Tony Dungy Quotes About Leadership
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If we do what we do without panicking, we can accomplish great things.
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There are certain bridges that are not worth crossing, no matter what others think. Loyalty and relationships are important.
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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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They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important.
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And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.
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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.
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I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength.
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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.
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Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone.
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I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.
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A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.
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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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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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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.
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At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.
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We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.
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We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.
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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.
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(Offensive Coach) Paul Hackett realized that Joe Montana knew more about the offense than he did, but when the meeting was over, Paul saw that Joe had taken three pages of notes. He documented exactly how Paul wanted to run the play, as well as all of the basics of it and its details. That's what a professional does.
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Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.
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There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.
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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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I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.
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Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.
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What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.
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The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.
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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.
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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.
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And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.
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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.
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