Inches Theory
Theme of the Week: Stick with the Fundamentals
Sunday, July 27, 2008
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Who Said It … Tony Dungy
Tony Dungy led the Indianapolis Colts to Super Bowl victory on February 4, 2007, the first such win for an African American coach. He is committed to the importance of Christian parenting, strongly supporting the All Pro Dad organization. To build his teams, he urges players to avoid concentrating on individual players, specific teams, or emotional highs and lows; instead they should focus on steadily refining the fundamentals of the game. What He Said … Inches Theory
In the first meeting of the Colts 2004 training camp, I showed a clip from the movie, Von Ryan's Express. In this film, a man who has fired a machine gun and thrown grenades at his pursuers—Nazis—sprints to catch up with a transport train that he and his fellow POWs have commandeered. He closes in on it, running with his hand out … and is shot and killed with his hand just inches from his fellow prisoners and only feet from the Swiss border and safety.
When the clip ended, I explained to the team the theory of death by inches. It wasn't big things that had tripped us up in previous years but a combination of details. One detail at a time builds the whole. By focusing on these—inches— we could, rather than coming up just short, reach our Super Bowl goal.
"We're not going to reinvent the wheel," I told them. "We're going to do what we do, only better. We're going to make it by doing the little things right."
Adapted from Quiet Strength (Tyndale, 2007) by permission.
Copyright © 2008 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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