Tony Dungy Quotes

Losing a game is not a big deal, except you've got to make sure that you move on and get the next one.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished. It's over. It's time to forget and prepare for the next one.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"

When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.

As a sportsman, you always play to win. Having said that, it's not possible to win every day. There will be days when you will do well and there will be days you won't.

I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.

Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back.

As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

When we win, I'm excited about winning. That way, I get the ups and downs of a football season. But I also know that it's never as good as it seems; it's never as bad as seems. You always have to stay focused because you never know, for me. My role, it could expand. So you just got to always be ready.

Whether football's here or not, I will be fine. I go out, I play to win.

We don't always get our respect but you've got to deal with it and go out there every week and just win football games.

If we have a good day and we win, I'll celebrate and enjoy it. If I have a bad day and I lose, I'll be disappointed and then come back the next day and think about the next team.

It doesn't matter the level whether it is League Two or anywhere, you want to win games.

Strikers never lose games... we have to be honest and say that.

I don't think about my losses. I only think about winning my next fight and preparing for my next fight.

After the leg break it was a very tough time. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't sometimes thought about stopping playing football.

When I came home, my kids wouldn't know if I went 0-for-4 or 4-for-4. I do not like to lose at anything, but I wouldn't be angry all day... Once I left the stadium, it was over with.

For me, what it means to be competitive is to work hard but compete in this type of game when you need to play, you need to suffer, you need to fight.

I wouldn't be in football if I was nervous. You have to look forward to games.

You have an obligation as a player - as an athlete at any level - and it doesn't matter what sport it is. When you sign on, you sign on. You prepare that week to go win. I don't care about your schedule, or how many people got hurt - it doesn't matter. You owe it to the people in the building and guys in the huddle to prepare yourself to win.

That's the thing with football: you have some good games, you have some bad games but the main thing is that you go back, you recap and next week you're ready to fight again. That's the main thing.

That's what international football is all about - be able to bounce after a bad performance.

I don't step back, that's football. It's about winning.