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If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.

Bill Walsh

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
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Motivational Player Sports
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
As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone
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Coaching Jobs Leader
Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
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Challenges Consistent Effort
Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
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Country Fighting Game Player Winning
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
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Flying Pants
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.
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Ethics Philosophy Water Work
If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
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Enough Figures Strong
Machines aren’t replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper
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Country Editors Game Player Sports Tools
I’ve observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure-and their ability to overcome it.
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Common Environment Overcoming Success
By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.
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Leader Possible Running Time Two
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.
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Diffuse Diverted Ego Insensitive Manifestations
“Extra effort,” in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns.
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Damage Effort Emotional Physical Tolls
Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it’s completely crazy is completely crazy.
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Country Crazy Game Ideas Player
Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you
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All Knowledge Competition Use
Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
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Enthusiasm Interest Offering

If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.

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