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.
Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.
Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.
We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.
When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
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