Tony Dungy Quotes

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

I like to keep my team together.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group

That's ultimately the thing that sticks out to you most, that's most important to me, is that I have the respect of my teammates.

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to be together all the time every day for, you know, a year and longer together, you have to have a - find a common ground. And that common ground for us is football.

I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.

I think it makes the game much easier to play once you have a good cohesion off the court. I think that's big because you come into a locker room at the NBA level, there's so much emotion, so much pride in the locker room.

That's what is cool about football: you build life-long relationships.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.

Mascherano's impact as a leader is more important inside the squad, and Messi's leadership is more important in the pitch.

If the chief executive cannot have a party background, how can she ensure her team is wholeheartedly united?

There was a little spell when we had no real leadership at the top but we've always had quality people here, lovely characters to whom Sunderland means an awful lot.

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

I want us to be a connected team-on and off the field.

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.