The "Any Given Sunday" philosophy means that Success belongs to the person who treats every "ordinary" day with the same discipline as the "big" day. If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

"You were right," the contractor said, exhausted. "But the odds were so low. How did you know it would be yesterday?"

Elias thought about his father, a high school football coach who used to say, "You don't practice for the games you know you'll win; you practice for the Sunday you might lose."