Tony Dungy quotes

"No excuses. No explanations."

"And one game, as we know, can cost you a lot."

"God does have much, much more in store for us than just this life."

"I have always considered myself, as a Christian, to be a role model for Christ."

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

"I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit."

I think the great thing about sports is you have ups and downs. You don't go undefeated, you don't win every game"

“We need to be able to win games like this, ... If you're going to win a championship, you have to win games that go any kind of way.”

"It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better."

“You should never be defined by what you do, by the things you have; you’ve got to define yourself by who you are and who you impact and how you impact people,”

"We do play on Sundays, but if we play the right way, carry ourselves the right way and honor God with our lives, we can impact people for Christ that would never hear about Him in a normal “church service.”

"For me, I've always kind of looked almost like a shepherd, a kind of Middle Eastern shepherd. Where you know where the flock needs to go and they're going, and your job is to get those guys to follow you, as opposed to the person standing behind trying to drive everybody there."

"I have always considered myself, as a Christian, to be a role model for Christ. Everything I do, I would hope it would stand up to God’s scrutiny. So being in the public eye and getting so much attention from the sports world really doesn’t create any pressure to do anything different."

"We do play on Sundays, but if we play the right way, carry ourselves the right way and honor God with our lives, we can impact people for Christ that would never hear about Him in a normal “church service.” So we try to keep our games in perspective, to honor God every day of the week and hope that we can be a witness to the country on the Sundays we do play."

"I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time. I talk about the importance of family, about giving back to the community and being role models. Those are things that are important to me, no matter what a player feels about “religion.” But I do let guys know that I’m a Christian, I do tell stories from the Bible to illustrate points I want to make to the team, and I do want guys to know that if they come to me for advice about personal things going on in their life, they are going to get that advice from a Christian perspective."

"That.s one of the things I really try to talk to our team about; that you are in a situation as National Football League Players where you enjoy some tremendous blessings. You also have some things that come along that most of society doesn.t have to face. You.ve got those temptations. You.ve got the chance to go astray. And how are you going to handle it? And really try to talk to them about the pitfalls of fame and fortune; and talking to them is what the Bible has to say about that and how to manage your life in a way that not only is going to please God but it.s going to be helpful to you."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com