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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.

Bill Walsh

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.)
BILL WALSH

Knows Thinking Unbreakable
Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
BILL WALSH

Country Fighting Game Player Winning
Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
BILL WALSH

Enthusiasm Interest Offering
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don’t allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines
BILL WALSH

Books Magazines Reality Sports
Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
BILL WALSH

Attitude Bad Talent
We all know gifs are pronounced “jifs,” right? Their creator says so, damn it!
BILL WALSH

Creator Damn Knows
Everybody isn’t everybody.
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Everbody Everybody Game
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.
BILL WALSH

Diffuse Diverted Ego Insensitive Manifestations
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
The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
BILL WALSH

Art More Science Use
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
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.
BILL WALSH

Awareness Lead Part Talking
I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
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Class Jobs Thinking
Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
BILL WALSH

Country Doe Game Knowing Player
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
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.
BILL WALSH

Champion Country Game Player Winning

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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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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