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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

Strength of will – is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won’t go away, who won’t stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all.
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Away Ego People Strong Survival
My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.
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Lists Pixels Publisher Trying
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
Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I’ve ever coached had ego to spare.
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Competitiveness Ego Psychologists Spare Strong
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
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.
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Ethics Philosophy Water Work
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
If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
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Enough Figures Strong
I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
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Class Jobs Thinking
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
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Beginning Caution Quotations
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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Country Editors Game Player Sports Tools
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don’t allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines
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Books Magazines Reality Sports
The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
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Art More Science Use
Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!
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Believe Forever Mentor
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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Country Game People Player Support
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
We all know gifs are pronounced “jifs,” right? Their creator says so, damn it!
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Creator Damn Knows
Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you
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All Knowledge Competition Use
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
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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Hate Jobs Player
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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Difference Offering Opinion Leader
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
In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough.
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Confidence Desire Fierce Rough Translate
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
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Flying Pants
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
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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Beautiful Football Orchestration Player
Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
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Challenges Consistent Effort

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.

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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.

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