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Chuck Noll knew how he could help people. He was a teacher. He was a guy that was very good at selecting people, getting them to fit in. He wasn't the guy that was going to sit there and motivate you, intrinsically. That wasn't what he was best at. So he hired people that were good at that.

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Tony Dungy
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 6
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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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Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.
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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 often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.
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I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.
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False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
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There are two schools of thought. You can be basic and spend all your time on what your opponents are going to do. Or, you can be very multiple and complex, put a lot of doubt in your opponents' minds and create problems for them with the volume of things you do.
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Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.
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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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Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.
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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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The biggest thing you need to be successful with it is a quarterback who wants to be involved in the decision-making process and not just merely want to execute plays sent in to him.
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