Nick Foles, author of this amazing
book is the 2018 Super Bowl MVP-winning quarterback for the Philadelphia
Eagles. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Nick was drafted by the Eagles
in the third round of the 2012 draft. In 2013 he became the first quarterback
in NFL history to both post a perfect passer rating (158.3) and throw seven
touchdowns in a single game, earning him a spot in the Pro Bowl as well as
offensive MVP honors. Foles played one season in St. Louis (2015) and one in
Kansas City (2016) before returning to the Eagles in 2017. On February 4, 2018,
Foles led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl victory in franchise history. He
and his wife, Tori, have a daughter named Lily and a Goldendoodle named Henry.
I enjoyed this book for Nick’s transparency telling of his
uncertainties and challenges as he endeavored to make the right choices in his
life. I also was interested in his very strong faith in God. From the foreword
to the book;
Above all else, Nick is a man of
faith, and his faith is what gives him both his confidence and his humility. It
also makes him dangerous. There’s a quote from C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series that
describes Aslan the lion this way: “Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he
isn’t safe. But he’s good.” God isn’t safe. But he is good. So why should we
mere humans play it safe? There should be a boldness and fearlessness to our
actions and our speech. Sometimes we think it’s dangerous to make a move or
take a new job, but we also know it’s just as dangerous to do nothing.
Nick’s faith, confidence, and
humility made him dangerous in the Super Bowl- and they’re what makes him a
winner every day in everything he does.
I think it is very interesting what Nick did for most of the
morning on the day he played in the Super Bowl. To quote Nick, “I spent most of
the morning in my room reading the Bible, praying, journaling, playing music,
and listening to a YouVersion devotional called ‘Making Sense of God’ by
Timothy Keller, a pastor in New York.”
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