Tony Dungy

Anthony Kevin Dungy (October 6 1955) is an American former professional football safety and coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League. Quotes Coaches have such great impact on their players, I know growing up, I had a lot of different coaches who impacted me. And I have a son who just finished playing college football and his high school coaches and his college position coach had such an impact on him. You have to be grounded in your faith and in your relationship with the lord, So that (his mother’s words) started me off in the right way. But as I grew in sports and further up the ladder, I saw what she was talking about. You could see people pour everything into a career or in a game, but you have to realize that this wasn’t the final straw and not the most important thing. My life experiences in college football and in the NFL just solidified that and now I want to get that message out to young people to make sure they are grounded in all facets of life. I would say being the first African American coach to be a head coach of a Super bowl team, that’s so hard to believe, and something I am grateful for,Coming into the NFL as a 21-year-old kid, you dream about playing in the Super Bowl or scoring the winning touchdown in a game, but I would never have dreamed about being in the Colts’ Ring of Honor or the Bucs’ Ring of Honor or in the hall of fame. All these are very special moments. I miss the players and the relationships, I don't miss the hours and the offseason work. NBC has been fun, I do love working with Rodney Harrison. We kind of go back-and-forth and share our thoughts. It allows me to stay in the game and stay involved, but not be at it 24-7, 365 days a year. They are both tremendous, but I spent seven years with Peyton Manning, I wouldn’t want any other quarterback to play for me. Tony Dungy at FCA banquet: Coaches have such great impact on their players, October 23 2018 We go into our nine o'clock meeting, supposedly to introduce the game plan on the Raiders. I said: `Let me just show you something,' and put the two notes on the overhead projector. This is what we're dealing with. You want to know why we aren't winning. This is why we aren't winning.' I said, we can give you game plans, we can do tackling drills, we can do all that, it's not going to change until you guys get this figured out, and I don't know how to do that because I've been doing it for three months, I left, let the players talk about it. We ended up beating the Raiders in overtime. I never felt our only job was to win. Coach Noll was so tremendous in that regard talking about your life, not just football. That yes, we want to accomplish some things, but you had to get ready for life, You had to figure out what you were going to be all about as a person. 'I think, first, of the guys who could only coach in the black schools. You can't tell me that Eddie Robinson and John Merritt and Jake Gaither wouldn't have won in the National Football League. Then you had guys who were assistants, who were never thought of as coordinators or head coaches. It wasn't in the realm of things. That was what was so enticing to me about the Colts job. When Jim Irsay called me, he said we want to win, obviously, we want to go to Super Bowls, and that's the goal. But we're relatively new in Indianapolis, and we don't have the history of 75 years of football. He said: `We've got to attract the community, got to become a part of it. He mentioned he wanted to do it like the Steelers did. HOF 2016: Trailblazing success carries Dungy to Hall of Fame, March 04 2020 External Links Category:Football (soccer) coaches Category:1955 births Category:1950