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Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I’ve ever coached had ego to spare.

Bill Walsh

Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.
BILL WALSH

Country Game Path Player Purpose Vision
Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
BILL WALSH

Country Fighting Game Player Winning
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
BILL WALSH

Hate Jobs Player
For me the starting point for everything – before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience – is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you’re dead in the water.
BILL WALSH

Ethics Philosophy Water Work
These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.
BILL WALSH

Diffuse Diverted Ego Insensitive Manifestations
Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
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Country Doe Game Knowing Player
Everybody isn’t everybody.
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Everbody Everybody Game
Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition.
BILL WALSH

Motivation Player Team
If I have any talent, it’s in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.
BILL WALSH

Beautiful Football Orchestration Player
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
BILL WALSH

Flying Pants
There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it’s taking on those you lead.
BILL WALSH

Awareness Lead Part Talking
The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
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Art More Science Use
Everybody’s got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader.
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Difference Offering Opinion Leader
If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
BILL WALSH

Enough Figures Strong
I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor.
BILL WALSH

Dry Humor Sense Serious
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
BILL WALSH

Differences Editing Writing

Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I’ve ever coached had ego to spare.

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