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Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

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Tony Dungy
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 6
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Anthony Kevin Dungy
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Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.
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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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Avoidance doesn’t solve anything it merely serves as a temporary salve.
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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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Gay marriage and who should be on a football team have nothing to do with each other.
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We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.
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The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.
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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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Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.
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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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I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength.
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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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We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.
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We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.
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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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Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.
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You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.
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Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better
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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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