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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.

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
Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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Attitude Bad Talent
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
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Beginning Caution Quotations
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
Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!
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Attitude Mystery Sucess
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
Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
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Country Fighting Game Player Winning
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
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
I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
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Class Jobs Thinking
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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Hate Jobs Player
If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!
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Enough Figures Strong
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.
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Common Environment Overcoming Success
Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
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Challenges Consistent Effort
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
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Motivational Player Sports
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
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.
BILL WALSH

Country Game Jobs Kids Player Sleep
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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Computer Shots Unnecessary
Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win.
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Absorbing Altogether Anything Lose Reinforcement
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
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
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
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
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
Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.
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Country Game Path Player Purpose Vision
Everybody isn’t everybody.
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Everbody Everybody Game
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
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Flying Pants

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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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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