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 WALSHI have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor.
More Bill Walsh Quotes
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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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If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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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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We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
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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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Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
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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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Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
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A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
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