If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.
Interpretation
Good coaching inspires players to love practice rather than dread it.
This quote by Bill Walsh emphasizes the importance of effective coaching in fostering a positive attitude towards practice among players. If players dislike practice, it suggests that the coach has failed to create an engaging and motivating environment, which is essential for developing skills and a love for the game.
In practice
During a coaching seminar about player development.
When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. 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.
Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
Champions behave like champions before they are champions
Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.
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.
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. 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. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees
My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.
You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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