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 WALSHA burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
More Bill Walsh Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
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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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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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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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Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
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Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
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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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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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If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
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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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