Tony Dungy

I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.

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.

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

When I was15 years old, I couldn't look at the NFL and look on TV and say, 'Boy, there's a head coach, African American. That's something I'd like to do.'

I know when I was an assistant coach and I started interviewing for head coaching jobs, I actually lost out on many jobs, several jobs, and the complaint that I got was, 'Well, he doesn't fit the mold of a head coach. He doesn't look the part. He's not gonna jump up and down. He's not going to scream.'

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

DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter

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

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

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

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.

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.

Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed.

We are all important, but we are not indispensable.

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

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

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

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life.