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We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Bill Walsh

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.
BILL WALSH

Communication Fighting Sports
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
BILL WALSH

Absolute Organization Practice
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 WALSH

Ethics Philosophy Water Work
Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
BILL WALSH

Attitude Bad Talent
“Extra effort,” in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns.
BILL WALSH

Damage Effort Emotional Physical Tolls
If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
BILL WALSH

Enough Figures Strong
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
BILL WALSH

Motivational Player Sports
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.
BILL WALSH

Country Game People Player Support
Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
BILL WALSH

Challenges Consistent Effort
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
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

Country Crazy Game Ideas Player
I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
BILL WALSH

Class Jobs Thinking
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.
BILL WALSH

Coaches Feeling Game Jon Know Player Win
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
BILL WALSH

Flying Pants
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
BILL WALSH

Hate Jobs Player
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

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