I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
Tony DungyRead
At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.
Interpretation
Trusting our preparation is essential for success in both personal and professional journeys.
This quote emphasizes the importance of preparation in achieving our goals and navigating life's challenges. Tony Dungy suggests that at various stages of our lives, both in our careers and personal endeavors, we must have confidence in the work we've put in to prepare ourselves for what lies ahead.
In practice
Using this quote during a motivational speech to encourage athletes before a game.
I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
You should never be defined by what you do, by the things you have; you've got to define yourself by who you are and who you impact and how you impact people. And that's the thing I try to get across to my players.
Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.
When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, 'I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.' He told me, 'We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.'
People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.
God’s definition of success is really one of significance-the significant difference our lives can make in the lives of others. The significance doesn’t show up in won-loss records, long resumes, or the trophies gathering dust on our mantels. It’s found in the hearts and lives of those we’ve come across who are in some way better because of the way we lived.
Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.
The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.
Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud' phase. You go through the 'I'll Never Finish' phase. And every once in a while you think, 'What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it's received as such?'
The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.
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