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Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.

Bill Walsh

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
Everybody isn’t everybody.
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Everbody Everybody Game
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
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.
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Communication Fighting Sports
We all know gifs are pronounced “jifs,” right? Their creator says so, damn it!
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Creator Damn Knows
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
If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
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Enough Figures Strong
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
Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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Attitude Bad Talent
Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
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Country Fighting Game Player Winning
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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Hate Jobs Player
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 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
Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
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Great Lifetime Pay Relationship
As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone
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Coaching Jobs Leader
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

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