Quotes from Tony Dungy

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

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.

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.

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

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.

There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.

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.

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

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

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.

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

The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It's not gourmet food, but the french fries they order in Indianapolis are just like the french fries they order in Tampa. Wherever they get McDonald's fries, they know it will be the same. That's what McDonald's does.

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

Don't shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don't get to live.

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.