Nfl Quotes - Page 34

• What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Team

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.268, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, People

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.229, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I can't very well preach unity and tell the guys we're all in this together and everyone's important, then cut a guy because we might improve by one percent if we bring in someone else.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Cutting

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.217, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If we do what we do without panicking, we can accomplish great things.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Accomplish

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.238, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Opportunity

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• Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Mean

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• First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Grief

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.263, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I love coaching football, and winning a Super Bowl was a goal I've had for a long time. But it has never been my purpose in life. My purpose in life is simply to glorify God. We have to be careful that we don't let the pursuit of our life's goals, no matter how important they seem, cause us to lose sight of our purpose. I coach football. But the good I can do to glorify God along the way is my real purpose.

  Tony Dungy

  Football, Real, Winning

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• I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Sports, Football

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.51, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this earth. It's not going be, "It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl." But, really and truly what you're going to leave this earth is the influence on others.

  Joe Gibbs

  Football, Winning, Earth

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• You don't like to see your guys take the field without you because it makes you feel like, man, maybe they really don't need me out there, which is kind of humbling.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Men, Guy

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• I don't think there's a lot of carry-over from year to year. I don't think anybody cares what you did the year before.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Thinking, Years

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• With football, you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two-game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

  Tom Brady

  Sports, Football, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Running, People

  The Sports Illustrated Interview, www.si.com. June 21, 2012.

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• When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Pounds, Linemen

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• I don't care about three years ago - I don't care about two years ago. I don't care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Years, Two

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• Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, People, Coaching

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• If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.

  Bob Golic

  Football, Kids, Play

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• A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

  Bud Grant

  Football, Dog, Order

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• Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis.

  Tim Green

  Football, Brain, Littles

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• Right after the game, say as little as possible.

  Tom Landry

  Football, Games, Littles

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• American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

  Sue Lawley

  Football, Party, Looks

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• Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

  Arnold J. Mandell

  Football, Islands, Games

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• You've got a goal in life. I've got a goal. Now all we need is a football team.

  Groucho Marx

  Football, Team, Goal

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• We'll fight 'em until hell freezes over, then we'll fight 'em on the ice.

  Dutch Meyer

  Football, Fighting, Ice

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