Tony Dungy Quotes

If things go wrong, don't go with them.

Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity - we're all living some form of Option B.

No one's career is full of highs. Somewhere down the line you are going to get kicked where it hurts and it's how you deal with that.

Real life happens. Sometimes it's messy. Sometimes it doesn't work.

There's always going to be setbacks.

When you don't have any worries, it is better, but things happen in football, and we know we must try to resolve as soon as we can.

Sometimes, you fall into a ditch without knowing it is there, without seeing it, but you try to come out of it. If you fall again, you will jump out again.

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

Not all things always go your way and you have to accept that. That's what you are going to get as a footballer.

I've had my down times, as every manager does, but I bounce back pretty quickly.

Not every single minute of your career will go well, individually and collectively, and not every season will go how you want it to, but it's how you react to that.

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

What separates the winners from the losers is that winners are able to handle problems and crises that they never imagined would occur. You hit the floor, but what counts is how fast you can get up and regroup. Failure is simply part of the equation.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

If you ever hear yourself or anyone you care about starting to express the belief that a problem is permanent, it’s time to immediately shake that person loose. No matter what happens in your life, you’ve got to be able to believe, 'This, too, shall pass,' and that if you keep persisting, you’ll find a way.

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.

Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.

Everyone deals with adversity. It's how you bounce back from it.

Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.