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

Bill Walsh

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
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
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Absolute Organization Practice
90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.
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Computer Shots Unnecessary
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
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.
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Motivation Player Team
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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Champion Country Game Player Winning
Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
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Great Lifetime Pay Relationship
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
“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
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
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
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
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Flying Pants
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
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Beginning Caution Quotations
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
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

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