Live Blog From C3 Conference – 21 Leadership Quotes And Lessons Mark Callaway aka The Undertaker

For the next two days, I have been dispatched by INJOY Stewardship Solutions to attend and help sponsor the C3 Conference in Dallas, TX.  Hosted by Fellowship Church founded by Senior Pastor Ed Young,the C3 Conference is where leaders from around the world gather together for intensive coaching, inspirational teaching, incurable learning, and intentional relationships to advance the Church!

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The evening’s final speaker was Mark Callaway aka The Undertaker.  I was really impressed by the work God is doing in his life and his kind demeanor.  The following are 21 Leadership Quotes And Lessons from Mark Callaway aka The Undertaker:

1. I have lived this (being the Undertaker) for the last 28 years.
2. When I was on the road full-time I averaged conservatively 250 days a year on the road.
3. Over the last 28 years I’ve 17 surgeries, both eye sockets crushed, set on fire. That was not fun.
4. Back in the old days, you had to work. If you didn’t work you didn’t get paid.
5. He’s awesome. He would never ask anyone do something he wouldn’t do. – Taker on Vince McMahon
6. He had the character. He needed somebody big with no personality.
7. The audience doesn’t care as much about the (aerial) character as much what are you going to do to blow my mind.
8. Wrestling is not about doing flips. You’re telling a story and the flips help tell the story.
9. Wrestling, the human body is not built to take that.
10. I always believed in God but never lived my life that way.
11. I lived a pretty excessive lifestyle.
12. My wife worked with WWE too. Her name was Michelle McCool.
13. She started going to Lake Hills Church first.
14. She wanted me to be the man I could be. And that has nothing to do with being the Undertaker.
15. I grew up Catholic.
16. I found myself being tense and defensive to leaning in and saying, “This is pretty cool.”
17. Michelle is the one who put me back in the right place to living my life for what really matters.
18. She brings the best out of me.
19. There was a whole other part of life I was missing out on.
20. I’m not perfect. I’m still in my process.  I spend a lot of my days now reading my Bible.
21. My wife said she will never forgive me if I’m in a room with 2500 pastors and you don’t ask them to pray for our family.

What a nice way to end the day.  Can’t wait for Day 2.

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