EARS AGO, A FOOTBALL PLAYER AT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY REMINDED ME OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSONS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS.
As head coach, I'd just told my team about what it would take to become unified. I said that they had to care about each other, to love each other, in order to become team players.
Mike Singletary, then a junior, waited for me after that meeting. He said, 'Coach, before I can love someone, I have to respect him.' That's a great observation, worthy of repeating. The point is very simple: You can't have any relationship - not a team network, not a marriage, not a business contract - without trust. You can't have trust and caring without respect.
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