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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
Life
Vocation
Ministry
Nfl
Leadership
Football
Opportunity

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I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.
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But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
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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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I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.
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If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.
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Long-term success requires faith-faith that your efforts to plan and execute the process will lead to the desired outcome.
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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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We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.
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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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Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.
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Take a moment to think about your answer to this question: Am I prepared to have great success and not get any credit for it?
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We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.
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I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.
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You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.
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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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First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.
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What will people remember us for? Are other people’s lives better because we lived? Did we make a difference? Did we use to the fullest the gifts and abilities God gave us? Did we give our best effort, and did we do it for the right reasons?
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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.
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I wouldn’t have taken him. Not because I don’t believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn’t want to deal with all of it. It’s not going to be totally smooth things will happen.
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