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On occasion I omit commas. On occasion, I use them. (The more you know about English, the less you’re likely to think there are unbreakable “rules” for a lot of these things.)

Bill Walsh

If you don’t have these feelings, I do not know how you can lead anyone. I have spent many sleepless nights trying to figure out how I was going to phase out certain players for whom I had strong feelings, but that was my job. I wasn’t hired to do anything but win.
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Coaches Feeling Game Jon Know Player Win
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
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Beginning Caution Quotations
Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
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Great Lifetime Pay Relationship
Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that’s the critical factor.
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Country Game People Player Support
You can make a point without being personal. Don’t insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less
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Belittle Getting Lesa More People
I’m not one of those “omg texting kids rite bad” alarmists. I just think there’s an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.
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Interesting Kids Thinking
Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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Attitude Bad Talent
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
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Absolute Organization Practice
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
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
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.
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Beautiful Football Orchestration Player
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
As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone
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Coaching Jobs Leader
When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, ‘Do you know how to tell if you’re doing the job?’ As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: ‘If you’re up at 3 A.M.
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Country Game Jobs Kids Player Sleep
I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
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Class Jobs Thinking
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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Hate Jobs Player

On occasion I omit commas. On occasion, I use them. (The more you know about English, the less you’re likely to think there are unbreakable “rules” for a lot of these things.)

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On occasion I omit commas. On occasion, I use them. (The more you know about English, the less you’re likely to think there are unbreakable “rules” for a lot of these things.)

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