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As I reached his doorway, I heard the familiar “Warren!” ring out, beckoning me to enter. Once inside his office, I discovered that the female he was talking to was a janitor.

I thought to myself, “Why is a man of this stature talking with a janitor?” And, of course, he wasn’t doing much of the talking. He was listening, actively engaged in hearing her tales. He didn’t concern himself with their different standing on the food chain of occupations. He simply cared that she was a person, a person worthy of respect and friendship.

After years of telling these stories to my wife, my dad, or anyone else who would listen, I began to better understand the keys to why John had such success on the football field. And I realized that these keys could also be used to “win” in everyday life.

And so I decided to take a sabbatical from teaching and document what I was witnessing. Along the way, I obtained insights from more than two hundred of John’s former players, from the 1950s to the 2010s, from All-Americans to benchwarmers.