Tony Dungy Quotes


You're disappointed when you get close... I remember in '93, we had the No. 1 defense [in Minnesota] and there were seven or eight openings that year and I didn't even get a call from anybody. Didn't even talk to anybody. And you think [to yourself], when are you ever going to have a run like that again when there are a lot of openings? You start to wonder if it's ever going to happen? But it does, and eventually it happens in the right spot. - Tony Dungy


Your first concern is for him. - Tony Dungy


You would have thought more than one team out of nine would say that here's a guy that should be at least talked to... And you can only beg the question in your own mind: If he were white, would it have been one out of nine? I don't think so. I think it would have been more than one out of nine. I would suggest more than one team would have talked to him with the credentials he has and what he's done the last two years. - Tony Dungy


You want the best players you can get. The better the players you have, the better your team is going to be. - Tony Dungy


You talk about this defence, the defensive tackle position and what that means, adding another person to our rotation -- somebody who's really a different type physically than what we've had -- is really exciting to us. - Tony Dungy


You really don't know how to grow up. You don't know what your next step is. - Tony Dungy


You realize how difficult it is to get 100 wins in this day and age, with the instant gratification and where you have a couple of years to make things happen. It puts you in really special company. - Tony Dungy


You progress, you learn better how the body functions. The schedules are so demanding. The margin of error is so small. Whatever you can do for the player, you're giving him the chance to succeed. - Tony Dungy


You 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


You mean this week's game of the century? - Tony Dungy


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