A Quote by Tony Dungy

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

Tony Dungy

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Accolades Denied Important Memories Opportunities Respond Success Way What's Important

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Tony Dungy
American - Coach
Born: October 6, 1955

The biggest accolades aren't the Grammys for me. It's creating opportunities for people.

Lecrae

Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

Muhammad Yunus

Those kind of accolades, the individual accolades are something that you can hang our hat on when it's all said and done.

Travis Kelce

I understood even in college, when you win as a team, everyone gets their own accolades, individual accolades.

Kyle Lowry

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Charles Caleb Colton

So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

Caleb Carr

Practice is important. The regular season is important. Your meetings are important. Your walk-through is important. Everything is important. You want to be a championship team, there's a price to pay. And that's what you have to do. There's no shortcuts. You can't shortcut your way to success.

Tom Thibodeau

We witness so many people lose themselves in this industry, and sacrifice who they really are for success and accolades.

KiKi Layne

Life isn’t about the final destination or the accomplishments and accolades; it’s about the journey and the opportunities for learning—and how we grow as a result.

Michael Eisen

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

Margaret Cho

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

Joe Baca

Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.

George Saunders

Everyone makes mistakes; it's about the way you respond to it that's really important.

Steve Smith

Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.