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The proper use of commas is often more art than science.

Bill Walsh

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.
BILL WALSH

Difference Offering Opinion Leader
Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
BILL WALSH

Great Lifetime Pay Relationship
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

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

Country Game Path Player Purpose Vision
“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
Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!
BILL WALSH

Believe Forever Mentor
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
BILL WALSH

Beginning Caution Quotations
If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
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Enough Figures Strong
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
BILL WALSH

Hate Jobs Player
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
Everybody isn’t everybody.
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Everbody Everybody Game
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
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
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
You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.
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Communication Fighting Sports
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

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