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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.

Bill Walsh

Everybody isn’t everybody.
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Everbody Everybody Game
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 path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.
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Country Game Path Player Purpose Vision
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
Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
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Great Lifetime Pay Relationship
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
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Flying Pants
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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Hate Jobs Player
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
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Beginning Caution Quotations
As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone
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Coaching Jobs Leader
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.
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Country Doe Game Knowing Player
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
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Differences Editing Writing
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
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
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
Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
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Country Fighting Game Player Winning
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
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Absolute Organization Practice

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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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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