Tony Dungy Quotes

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

A quarterback should be leaders of the team.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important.

I think I'm very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before the ball is snapped.

Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.

Look at guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Those guys have great arms, but people talk about them more as a quarterbacks and the intellectual side of the game and how they really dissect defenses - and then the arm is something else that helps them with that.

If you chart SEC champions over a 20-year period, the one consistent thing to me is you're not going to win if you don't have a quarterback. It's too critical of a position. He decides something every play.

As we play, I just kind of make the best decision and try to move the chains.

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.

While it's great for a quarterback to have athletic ability, his goal is to get the ball out of his hand, orchestrate the offense and not allow his ability to stand in the way of the offense running efficiently.

Play within the system. Be a decision maker.

It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make a decision.

The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'

There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.

Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through—usually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. But it was still better than wrestling with the alternatives.

I am very comfortable with the strategic decisions that I made.

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

What I can control and all I know as of today, I am signed up for one more year...I guess things could change, but with all the uncertainty in many aspects, I don't see (his decision not to sign an extension) changing before camp gets here, and when camp gets here I'm even more certain to play it out.

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide whether it's going to work, and then you turn around and you've been married 45 years.

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks.

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

I mean, it really has a lot to do with who is actually physically doing a lot of talking. And we've just noticed that as we've evolved we're still making all the decisions from this, like, "cave."