Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance »

Tony Dungy is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life, New York Times best-seller Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance. He led the Indianapolis Colts to Super Bowl victory in 2007, the first such win for an African American head coach. Dungy joined the Colts in 2002 after serving as the most successful coach in Tampa Bay Buccaneers history. He and his wife, Lauren, are the parents of six children. They live in Tampa, Florida.

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Super Bowl–winning coach and #1 New York Times best selling author Tony Dungy has had an unusual opportunity to reflect on what it takes to achieve significance. He is looked to by many as the epitome of the success and significance that is highly valued in our culture. He also works every day with young men who are trying to achieve significance through football and all that goes with a professional athletic career—such as money, power, and celebrity. Coach Dungy has had all that, but he passionately believes that there is a different path to significance, a path characterized by attitudes, ambitions, and allegiances that are all too rare but uncommonly rewarding. Uncommon reveals lessons on achieving significance that the coach has learned from his remarkable parents, his athletic and coaching career, his mentors, and his journey with God. A particular focus of the book: what it means to be a man of significance in a culture that is offering young men few positive role models.

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Part I Develop Your Core 1

1 Character 3

2 Honesty and Integrity 9

3 Humility and Stewardship 17

4 Courage 29

Part II Love Your Family 37

5 How to Treat a Woman 39

6 Fatherhood 51

7 Respect Authority 65

Part III Lift Your Friends and Others 75

8 Friendship 77

9 Taking Counsel 83

10 The Power of Positive Influence 89

11 Mentoring 95

Part IV Your Full Potential 101

12 Powerful Thoughts 103

13 Education and Athletics 111

14 Career, Work, and Money 117

15 Goals and Risk 125

16 Alcohol and Drugs 131

17 Failure 137

Part V Establish A Mission that Matters 143

18 Style versus Substance 145

19 Priorities 151

20 Being versus Doing 157

21 Following Your Dreams 161

22 Creating Balance 167

Part VI Choose Influence over Image 173

23 Respect for Yourself and Others 175

24 Sexual Integrity 179

25 Platforms 187

26 Role Model 191

Part VII Live Your Faith 197

27 Eternal Self-Esteem 199

28 Relationship with Christ 203

29 Faith 207

30 Purpose 211

31 Significance 215

Epilogue 221

Q&A With Coach Dungy 225

About the Authors 259