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If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!

Bill Walsh

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
I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
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Class Jobs Thinking
Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it’s completely crazy is completely crazy.
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Country Crazy Game Ideas Player
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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Hate Jobs Player
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
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
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
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
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Absolute Organization Practice
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
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
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 enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
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Enthusiasm Interest Offering
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
Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!
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Believe Forever Mentor
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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Beautiful Football Orchestration Player

If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!

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