This is from an article on Ronnie Lott from the Yahoo! sports website, with his words in quotations (the italics are mine):
"Bill Walsh had asked if I'd be interested in coaching, and I said, 'You know what? Yeah, I would be,'" Lott recalled. "So he had me go meet with Coach Mariucci, and right at the start of the interview he pulled out pictures of his family and said, 'I want you to look at these.' He was trying to make the point that if I went into coaching, I wouldn't see my family much.
"I thought that was an odd conversation, because if you're going to be great in anything, you're not going to see your family a whole lot. That's part of being successful. I could tell that we didn't have the same vision. He could've easily said, 'What do you think about the opportunity of becoming a great coach?' But to start the conversation the way he did was strange to me. It would be like recruiting a CEO for a new business and saying, 'You're probably not going to make it,' instead of, 'Hey, I think you can build a great company.'
"When I walked out of that meeting, I thought, 'I'm never going to think about coaching again.'"
So here is my question: what if your goal is to be a great husband? What if your goal is to be a great father? Will you see your family a whole lot if that is your goal? What would success look like then?
