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    Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life

    Written by Tony Dungy and Nathan Whitaker

    Narrated by Tony Dungy

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    2008 Retailer's Choice Award winner!
    Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach-especially a football coach-to win the respect of his players and lead them to the Super Bowl without the screaming histrionics, the profanities, the demand that the sport come before anything else? How is it possible for anyone to be successful without compromising faith and family? In this inspiring and reflective memoir, Coach Dungy tells the story of a life lived for God and family-and challenges us all to redefine our ideas of what it means to succeed. Includes a foreword by Denzel Washington.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers Audio
    Release dateJul 10, 2007
    ISBN9781414325330
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    Tony Dungy

    Tony Dungy and his wife Lauren Dungy are active members of a number of family, faith, and community-based organizations, including All Pro Dad, iMom, Fellowship of Chrstian Athletes, Mentors for Life, Family First, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and the Boys and Girls Club of America. Tony is a former NFL player and retired head coach of the 2006 Superbowl Champions, the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League.

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    Reviews for Quiet Strength

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    • 4/5
      A testament to strength and endurance...and I don't mean in the football sense.
    • 3/5
      I was on vacation and saw someone reading Quiet Strength. It looked interesting in spite of the fact that I could care less about football. It was. Tony Dingy is a top notch person and football is more than the hit-em, score em game. It was well worth the read.
    • 1/5
      This is a biography of Tony Dungy with specific emphasis on his NFL coaching career. Tony is a religious man who was a mediocre football player, mediocre coach, and lost his son due to suicide. I did not find his story inspiring. He gives God the credit for some of the game victories. It reminds me of two sides in a war with each claiming that God is on their side. It is unclear why his son committed suicide, but Tony admits that he did not spend the quality time with his family that his father did with him. I find it interesting that the Buccaneers went to the super bowl after Tony was fired and a new coach took control of the team. He was fortunate to have a talented team in Indianapolis. I wonder if that had anything to do with the Colts going to the super bowl. Hmmm. I suspect Tony is a decent guy, but he doesn't seem particularly special or inspiring to me. I will take Lance Armstrong over this guy any day of the week.
    • 5/5
      it was about how it felt to win the super bowl and he was talking about his child hood and thing like that.
    • 5/5
      Excellent book- Mr. Dungy is a great inspiration as a husband,friend,coach,christian,parent- you name it. Top Ten of 2007!
    • 4/5
      Inspirational and very encouraging. Dungy is a great man of integrity and faith.The writing was distracting for me at times in its simplicity. The change between paragraph thoughts caused whip-lash at least a few times ever chapter.
    • 5/5
      even though I know very little about American football I found this book enthralling
    • 5/5
      Excellent job by Tony Dungy. I appreciate his transparency on his struggles and his willingness to follow God.
    • 5/5
      great read! not just about football but story about perseverance, faith,hard work, loss and love.
    • 5/5
      This is a great story of triumph, great marriage teamwork, and alignment of vision! Many great things happen when go for your dreams and hold on loosely to the journey to get to your dreams! This book also showed me that my faith keeps me grounded in every aspect of life. This would be a great read for anyone who’s looking to make a difference, or going to college.
    • 5/5
      Loved Coach when he was at the TB Buccaneers. He did huge things for Tampa. His story I didn’t know much but learned so much during this book. My heart aches for him and his wife with the loss of their son but I love their outlook of remembering the good times!
    • 5/5
      Coach Dungy brings our life’s purpose into perspective and reminded me to live with an eternal perspective. I love how he is able to articulate clearly without a doubt how our vocation is merely a platform that God gives us to glorify Him
    • 5/5
      Great read- flew through it! Highly recommended this one for anyone, sports fans or not!
    • 5/5
      This book is Amazing!!! Tony’s story is one of courage, strength and faith in God. I was blessed by his commitment to stick with God and put Him first no matter the season of life he was in.
    • 5/5
      Amazing man and great book. Always been a Colts fan, and it's fun to hear him add the commentary and back story to some of those years. Great Christian insights too.
    • 5/5
      Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy and Nathan Whitaker is a very interesting memoir of Tony’s journey to the NFL. It starts with his childhood just like most memoirs, but ends with his Super Bowl winning team. Tony Dungy started as one of the few black quarterbacks in college. As he entered the NFL, he was hoping to be a quarterback. He never got one offer for his position, instead he would get many offers for different ones. His coaching career took off when the Buccaneers hired him as their head coach. Read this book to see the astonishing journey of the first African-American head coach to win a Super Bowl. It is quite amazing. I recommend this book to anybody familiar with Tony Dungy and to all football fans.
    • 5/5
      4.5"Tony Dungy led the Indianapolis Colts to Super Bowl victory on February 4, 2007, the first time an African American coach won the Super Bowl.He also is known as one of the NFL's best coaches.------------A well told, inspirational story of success without compromise to family and faith."Coach Dungy tells the story of a life lived for God and family—and challenges us all to redefine our ideas of what it means to succeed. "
    • 3/5
      Tony Dungy is a rather unique and inspiring person. Tony Dungy has been in the National Football League as a coach for many years. As a head coach he lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the brink of a championship before being let go. He finally got over the hump by winning Super Bowl XLI over the Chicago Bears behind Peyton Manning and the feisty play of strong safety Bob Sanders.

      This memoir is about how Coach Dungy applies his Christian faith to not only his coaching in professional football, but to his life off the field as well. His approach to coaching football is certainly unique. He is no Bill Parcel’s who often demeans his players, sometimes in public, to motivate them. He is also not the stereotypical coach who screams, yells, and cusses at his players when they make mistakes or in an attempt to fire them up or get the best out them. His style, by all accounts, is a quiet, understated approach that has certainly worked well for him. He rebuilt the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from a lousy team to a championship caliber team but could never quite get the wins in the playoffs to reach the Super Bowl. He was, most would say, unfairly fired by the Buccaneers as they seemed to feel he was not going to get them past the playoffs and to the Super Bowl. One year after he was let go buy the Bucs, the team won Super Bowl XXXVII over the Oakland Raiders with Jon Gruden as head coach.

      After being hired as head coach by the Indianapolis Colts, Dungy quietly built up the defensive side of the ball. The defensive unit had often let the team down and was clearly a weak link. While the Colts defense never became quite as good as his Buccaneers teams, it was just good enough to get a Super Bowl win.

      Beyond talking about applying his faith to his role as head coach, Dungy talks about the importance of his family and his community and how he has striven to give all he can to each. And through this memoir, the reader learns a lot about Dungy’s career in the NFL and his teams, so there is plenty of football talk in the book to please fans of the game. He also talks about how his faith helped him cope with the inexplicable suicide of his teenage son.

      Overall, this is an excellent book if you are a fan of football or you just want to hear the story of a devoutly religious man and how he applies his faith to everyday life.

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    • 5/5
      This amazing book was read in one sitting, albeit on a flight from LA to Detroit. I'll admit that being a sports nut and a Pittsburgh Steeler's fan / fanatic helped me a lot in enjoying the book. My wife who is not a sports fan put it down after one chapter. This book is a must read for any person that struggles with the balance of religion and sports. Tony Dungy is a tremendous example of how to life life to its fullest in the sports world.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent book written in a conversational style. Dungy is a great role model and his book is a true inspiration.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      What a great look inside the life of the Coach Dungy’s coaching principles and God-honoring lifestyle!With the help of Nathan Whitaker - a personal friend of the Dungys, Coach Dungy has written an amazing account of his life up-through the Colts’ Super Bowl win last year! Reading through much of the history of this great NFL coach and seeing how God has continued to be his focus throughout his adult life, it is encouraging to cheer on Coach Dungy and “my” Indianapolis Colts.The book is exciting for my football-loving mind, too, in that it reads occasionally like a play-by-play of some of the high-profile games I sat on the edge of my seat during. To read those same plays coming from the coach of the team I was cheering for brings a new angle and excitement.I recommend this book to any Colts fan AND/OR to anyone looking to read about a person who puts his faith in Christ first before his career - and how that faith interweaves throughout his dealings in life!Coach Dungy is a hero in my book - even before reading his book!