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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.

Bill Walsh

Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!
BILL WALSH

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.
BILL WALSH

Country Game People Player Support
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

Ethics Philosophy Water Work
Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I’ve ever coached had ego to spare.
BILL WALSH

Competitiveness Ego Psychologists Spare Strong
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.
BILL WALSH

Away Ego People Strong Survival
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
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
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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Leader Possible Running Time Two
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
BILL WALSH

Belittle Getting Lesa More People
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.
BILL WALSH

Lists Pixels Publisher Trying
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
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.
BILL WALSH

Common Environment Overcoming Success
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.
BILL WALSH

Interesting Kids Thinking
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
BILL WALSH

Differences Editing Writing
I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
BILL WALSH

Class Jobs Thinking
Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!
BILL WALSH

Attitude Mystery Sucess

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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