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Change isn't always bad we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.

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Tony Dungy
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: October 6
American Football Player
Basketball Player
Football Player
Jackson
Michigan
Anthony Kevin Dungy
Football
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Principles
Learning
Seeing
Procedures
Change
Improving
Always
Nfl
Leadership

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There are two schools of thought. You can be basic and spend all your time on what your opponents are going to do. Or, you can be very multiple and complex, put a lot of doubt in your opponents' minds and create problems for them with the volume of things you do.
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If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?
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Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better
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When it's over, it's over is part of football's greatest appeal to me. When a game ends, win or lose, it's time to prepare for the next one.
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Chuck Noll knew how he could help people. He was a teacher. He was a guy that was very good at selecting people, getting them to fit in. He wasn't the guy that was going to sit there and motivate you, intrinsically. That wasn't what he was best at. So he hired people that were good at that.
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They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important.
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Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average.
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I never wanted our players to think the Super Bowl was the ultimate. I always talk about 'Yes, we're going to win, but what are we going to do as we're winning? What are we going to do after we win?' Winning the Super Bowl is not the destination. It's not an end point. It's what you do from here.
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At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.
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And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.
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At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.
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There are certain bridges that are not worth crossing, no matter what others think. Loyalty and relationships are important.
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The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.
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When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it.
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It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.
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When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference
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You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.
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You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you have got to hang though together
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What you do is not as important as how you do it.
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Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.
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