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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.

Bill Walsh

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
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
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
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Absolute Organization Practice
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
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.
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Interesting Kids Thinking
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
Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
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Enthusiasm Interest Offering
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
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.
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Diffuse Diverted Ego Insensitive Manifestations
Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
BILL WALSH

Country Fighting Game Player Winning
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
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
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
We all know gifs are pronounced “jifs,” right? Their creator says so, damn it!
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Creator Damn Knows
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.
BILL WALSH

Difference Offering Opinion Leader
Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
BILL WALSH

Attitude Bad Talent

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