In a number of the communities where he has coached, Gailey has been a member of Baptist churches, including Shades Mountain Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala, during his two years as head coach of the World League of American Football’s Birmingham Fire, and First Baptist Church in Troy, Ala., where he led Troy State to the NCAA Division II National Championship in 1984.
"I became a Christian at 11 years old and was very fortunate to grow up in the church," Gailey, of Americus, Ga., and the son of a football coach, said in a July 1996 radio broadcast affiliated with the Christian magazine Sports Spectrum
"But it was actually at age 29 when I said, 'Hey, I've really got to live it and believe it and breathe it and eat it. I've got to just do everything the way I think Christ would want it done, or don't say I am [a Christian], don't be a hypocrite, don't say one thing and do another. You know, Am I living it or am I not living it? Have I given it to Him or have I not given it to Him?
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"I became a Christian at 11 years old and was very fortunate to grow up in the church," Gailey, of Americus, Ga., and the son of a football coach, said in a July 1996 radio broadcast affiliated with the Christian magazine Sports Spectrum
"But it was actually at age 29 when I said, 'Hey, I've really got to live it and believe it and breathe it and eat it. I've got to just do everything the way I think Christ would want it done, or don't say I am [a Christian], don't be a hypocrite, don't say one thing and do another. You know, Am I living it or am I not living it? Have I given it to Him or have I not given it to Him?
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