01UndatedI have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
03UndatedRemember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).Tony Dungy / quote ↗
04UndatedI love coaching football, and winning a Super Bowl was a goal I’ve had for a long time. But it has never been my purpose in life. My purpose in life is simply to glorify God. We have to be careful that we don’t let the pursuit of our life’s goals, no matter how important they seem, cause us to lose sight of our purpose. I coach football. But the good I can do to glorify God along the way is my real purpose.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
05UndatedI 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.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
06UndatedYou can't always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response. Your options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
07UndatedThe 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.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
08UndatedPeople 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 / quote ↗
09UndatedI 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.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
10UndatedBalance provides the chance for longevity. You can be a champion at work and at home.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
11UndatedYou never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
12UndatedMy dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
13UndatedI could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
14UndatedI don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
15UndatedThe secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
18UndatedThe book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
19UndatedYou're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.Tony Dungy / quote ↗
