Tony Dungy Quotes

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth. It's not going to be, 'It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl,' but really and truly what you're going to leave on this Earth is the influence on others.

I want to create a different kind of legacy.

When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.

I think I just want to leave my mark in some way. I hope I leave the world a better place than it was when I came, and I think the best way I can do that is through acting and writing, and hopefully it will make a difference someday.

It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.

It's always great to add to your legacy.

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

I don't want people to remember me going through the motions.

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

It's very human to want to make an impact, to contribute to the world. But it's hard to know the how and why. Like, 'Will my small thing make a difference?'

I don't think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.

Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.

I want to leave my own legacy, make my own trail.

That's something I always say is good to do in life, is to leave our mark in this lifetime.

I want to leave my own legacy and write my own story.

I want to leave a great legacy behind, not just be a quarterback drafted in the first round who doesn't produce.

I don't want to be forgotten or not have helped as many people as I can before I pass.

I always wanted to make something that was bigger than me, that wasn't just one person.

It's about leaving a legacy. People will always remember what you did. That's why I run the way I run.

When you see an opportunity to change the world, get up and get the job done!