Bill Walsh Quotes - Page 2

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• The [best] coaches... know that the job is to win... know that they must be decisive, that they must phase people through their organizations, and at the same time they are sensitive to the feelings, loyalties, and emotions that people have toward one another. 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

  Loyalty, Strong, Jobs

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• There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. 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.

  Bill Walsh

  Real, Team, Organization

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• One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent.

  Bill Walsh

  Athlete, Winning, Order

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.256, Penguin

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• Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

  Bill Walsh

  Nfl, Flying, Pants

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.79, Penguin

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• Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!

  Bill Walsh

  Attitude, Mystery

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• Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed. Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you

  Bill Walsh

  Games, Competition, Innovation

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• The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.

  Bill Walsh

  Practice, Organization, Nfl

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• Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.

  Bill Walsh

  Effort, Challenges, Consistent

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.51, Penguin

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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.

  Bill Walsh

  Offering, Opinion Leaders, Nfl

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.101, Penguin

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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.

  Bill Walsh

  Crazy, Ideas, Nfl

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.239, Penguin

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• Victory is produced by and belongs to all.

  Bill Walsh

  Victory

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• As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone

  Bill Walsh

  Jobs, Leader, Coaching

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• To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

  Bill Walsh

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform.

  Bill Walsh

  Strong, Nfl, Leader

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.128, Penguin

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• We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

  Bill Walsh

  Motivational, Sports, Player

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• "Extra effort," in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns. There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it's taking on those you lead.

  Bill Walsh

  Emotional, Effort, Tolls

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.188, Penguin

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• Act like a VIP and become a VIP

  Bill Walsh

  Vip

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• 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. If a player needed me to light a fire under him by turning the other team into a demon, he was lacking something I couldn't give him.

  Bill Walsh

  Motivation, Team, Player

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.116, Penguin

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• We all know gifs are pronounced "jifs," right? Their creator says so, damn it!

  Bill Walsh

  Damn, Creator, Knows

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.

  Bill Walsh

  Writing, Editing, Differences

  Bill Walsh (2004). “The Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English”, p.11, McGraw Hill Professional

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• A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Book, Reality

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• Everybody isn't everybody.

  Bill Walsh

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.

  Bill Walsh

  Technology, Way, Phenomenon

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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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.

  Bill Walsh

  Beautiful, Football, Player

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• Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Writing, Headlines

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