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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.

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
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
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Absolute Organization Practice
The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
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Art More Science Use
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
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 effort is a consistent challenge.
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Challenges Consistent Effort
Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!
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Attitude Mystery Sucess
Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
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Enthusiasm Interest Offering
“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
There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it’s taking on those you lead.
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Awareness Lead Part Talking
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
I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor.
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Dry Humor Sense Serious
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
I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
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Class Jobs Thinking
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
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
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Flying Pants

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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