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 WALSHYour enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
More Bill Walsh Quotes
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Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
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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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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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If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!
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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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The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
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The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
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