Tony Dungy Quotes

If your quarterback can't make plays in certain situations for you to win games, he's not getting the job done.

I'm going to play the quarterback position the way coaches install the plays; I'm going to go through the reads just like they install it.

Whether it's third down, man vs. man or red zone, a lot of the game comes down to one-on-one matchups.

I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

The better quarterbacks are real consistent. Rookie quarterbacks are not.

There's a lot to it, but the bottom line as a receiver is to run the right route, get open and make plays.

When you take shots downfield, you want to be good at them.

It's hard to win with rookie quarterbacks, as I know.

In college, I was making a lot of presnap reads. It was much easier.

Pass a lot, use some reverses and toss in a gadget play once in a while for the TV audience. None of that detracts from winning.

As a wide receiver, you don't want to feel that the quarterback is only going to throw you the ball if you're wide open.

Most of the time, you're just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you're getting; that really dictates where the football goes.

There is not some secret formula, it comes down to completing passes, being efficient on first and second down and making plays when the ball is in your hands.

All quarterbacks, each play is its own entity, and you can pick apart each play. Sometimes they do a good job getting to the checkdown, and sometimes they progress faster.

I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.

I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.

I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.

We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us.

If I can drop two touchdowns a game and win, I'll take it every time.

I’m concerned that if one of those two areas doesn’t play up to par – if they give up some points or they can’t run the football – and it gets stuck on Russell Wilson’s shoulders…if he has to stay in the pocket against good defenses, read coverages, make the right plays, see the field, that’s where I worry.

Listen, I want to win football games; whatever's going to help us win.

You don't want to read about your quarterback in the newspaper every day of the week.

Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.

Sometimes, they do a great job covering everyone downfield, so you just have to checkdown and hit a tight end to convert. That's just how we play ball.

When our positioning and ball game and passing is not that good, then my game is struggling as well. I can score from set pieces and so on, but I have to be involved in the combinations, make my runs without the ball, go deep.