Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader.
We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact – for good.
Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.
I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn’t always mean equal.
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.
How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.
If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.
God’s definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.
Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn’t select.
The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.
Be successful not just in what you do, but in who you are.
What’s important is not the uniform or the number, and it’s not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it’s who you are on the inside. And when you’re in Christ, that’s never going to change.
A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.
There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they’re doing.
Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.
You can have an impact anywhere you are.
If you’re a leader, people’s lives should be better because of the influence you’ve had along the way.
We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.
Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone.
I realized that I needed to be more like the shepherd than the hired hand in protecting my team.