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

Tony Dungy

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Tony Dungy
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 6
American Football Player
Basketball Player
Football Player
Jackson
Michigan
Anthony Kevin Dungy
Vocation
Ministry
Nfl
Leadership
Football
Opportunity
Life

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I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.
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Gay marriage and who should be on a football team have nothing to do with each other.
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If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.
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Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.
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Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
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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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Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.
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I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done.
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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.
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I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength.
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(Offensive Coach) Paul Hackett realized that Joe Montana knew more about the offense than he did, but when the meeting was over, Paul saw that Joe had taken three pages of notes. He documented exactly how Paul wanted to run the play, as well as all of the basics of it and its details. That's what a professional does.
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Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.
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If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.
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What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.
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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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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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I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.
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Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.
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I realized that I needed to be more like the shepherd than the hired hand in protecting my team.
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