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

  

 

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1) This book is about the life of Tony Dungy, a former NFL coach who had a winning career, It's not just about how his career went but also about how his bringing up got him there. It shows his morals that he follows in life and how his priorities helped him achieve goals that many dream about.
2) Being an autobiography, Dungy wrote about his life to show what he had to do to get to where he was. It was written after Dungy won the superbowl XLI with the Colts people wanted to know how he felt after the long struggle to obtain something that all football players dream to have. It's an inspiration to those that want to reach his level of stature one day.
3) Honestly it's funny how I came across this book. I went to the bathroom one day and it was on the ground and I picked it up. I started skimming through and I got really into the book and started actually reading from the beginning. It's an inspirational story that shows that the most important part of life is the values that you follow.
4) Of course I found this novel interesting because it wasn't just any person writing about their life that I haven't heard of before. This was someone I've heard of and watched on tv coaching his team to victory time and time again. These days you see him as a game commentator where you see his true humbleness. So to read this it brought a deeper connection to his life outside of sports that most people don't see.



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1) Well it's hard to see how the characters in this story would be made up because it is written by the man who lived this life himself. The author does have their perspectives on things but it's pretty hard to make people different when you're the one writing about an experience first hand, especially when it is coming from someone who tells things by how they are and not just what they want to believe. An example of this was an issue that Dungy had a problem with but was taken completely the wrong way. He was upset with a commercial that Terrell Owens had been in involving him missing a game to be with a desperate housewife. People took Dungy's view as him not liking the idea of a white woman with a black man. Dungy's interpretation had been completely altered becomes he was upset over the fact that Owens was advertising that it's ok to leave your priorities for temptation. I have a lot of respect for Dungy because he isn't trying to alter any ones views but try to lead as an example.
2) When Dungy talks about his sons, a more loving tone was used and normally involved deeper talks. An example is when Dungy talks about how his youngest Eric son bonded with the players. After One of these players that his son bond with was traded, he was upset because there was a new player wearing his number. Dungy has to explain to him that nothing can always stay the same so just be open to the new things life presents.
3) Dungy's life is interesting to write about because he doesn't take it as luck or something he truly deserved. He follows his life with god leading him. His religious beliefs, morals, and priorities he lives by helped him get to where he is but he truly believes in gods blessings.