What a guy! Speech here. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said:
Tony has
inspired millions through his response to personal tragedy and
professional success alike. A role model first and coach second, Dungy
will have a
legacy of service that outlasts any football record or championship.
For seven years in Indiana, he used his celebrity platform to promote
adoption,
prison ministry, family values, outreach to the poor, and simple
Christian decency.
As
his own pastor said, Dungy came to Indianapolis
with the understanding that "faith would come before football" and he
managed to exceed expectations in both. In his retirement speech
yesterday,
Tony said, "I remember... saying that our goal was to win... but that
we needed to win the right way, we needed to win with the right kind of
players
that... our young men and women in this community could look up to and
say, 'I want to be like him, or him, or him.'"