Tony Dungy Quotes

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

You're not going to win all the time.

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

Setbacks motivate me.

We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

Every day is not perfect.

You win a few, you lose a few.

You have to expect failure; not everything is going to work.

I've been a very, very fortunate man. I've had a lot of highs - and a great deal of lows.

Just understand that there's going to be some ups, there's going to be some downs.

In football, you can't always have it your own way. You can't always have the good times. You are going to have bad spells and periods when you are not playing well. It is something I have to deal with. I have learnt to deal with it.

Don't worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they're going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does.

Real life happens. Sometimes it's messy. Sometimes it doesn't work.

Life is nothing without ups and downs.

Sometimes, things don't go your way. Sometimes, they do.