Tony Dungy astounds many by the way he approaches coaching professional football. He doesn’t yell or scream and you will never, ever catch him swearing.
I remember catching a telecast this year prior to the Super Bowl in which an analyst was talking about his encounter with one of Indianapolis’s personnel men.
“He (the personnel man) said,” and I’m paraphrasing here, “he only heard Dungy swear once. And when he brought it up to Dungy, the coach replied, ‘It will never happen again.’”
Dungy is more than a pro football coach. His way of coaching and preparing his team is unorthodox in a league and sport in which constant yelling or swearing is accepted as commonplace. He is a great human being, one who inspires something within us all. In a world where role models are increasingly becoming difficult to come across and where athletes like Michael Vick and Pacman Jones dominate headlines with their screw-ups, Dungy is a rare diamond shining amid the rough.
His memoir, Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life, was released Tuesday (July 10, 2007) and hopes to reflect the same values which inspired Dungy into being the man he is today.
I have ordered the book through Amazon.com and hope to publish a full review on this site once I finish reading it.
I encourage you, too, to order the book for yourself, for your friend, for your child. Role models are hard to find, but with Dungy you know straight off that you’re getting the genuine article, someone who not only speaks of living a life guided by morals and values but also lives one.
You may order the book and/or its accompanying Men’s Bible Study (also by Dungy) online. If you do or have already read the book, feel free to leave your thoughts and comments in the box below.
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