If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
BILL WALSHYou 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.
More Bill Walsh Quotes
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Everybody isn’t everybody.
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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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We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
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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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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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I’ve observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure-and their ability to overcome it.
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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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Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you
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Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
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I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
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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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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.
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Machines aren’t replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper
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“Extra effort,” in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns.
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