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 WALSHConsistent effort is a consistent challenge.
More Bill Walsh Quotes
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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
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Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you
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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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Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
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My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.
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The culture precedes positive results. It doesn’t get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they’re champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.
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The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
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Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
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Strength of will – is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won’t go away, who won’t stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all.
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We all know gifs are pronounced “jifs,” right? Their creator says so, damn it!
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I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
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A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
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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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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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