Tony Dungy Quotes

Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.

One thing I've learned in life is that natural talent only takes you so far, and I've always wanted to grow.

I have to keep playing and growing and giving my best.

Winning is, of course, rewarding; who doesn't enjoy winning? But for me, it's about more than just winning: it's about knowing I'm putting in the day-to-day work to get a little bit better every time.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

Always stay focused. Always give and try your best.

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

The warrior is always trying to improve.

As Carol Dweck says, “Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

I believe that anyone can become better, if you put in the effort.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.