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Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average.

Tony Dungy

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Tony Dungy
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: October 6
American Football Player
Basketball Player
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Anthony Kevin Dungy
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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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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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The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.
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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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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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What you do is not as important as how you do it.
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We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.
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It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.
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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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If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.
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