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.
The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.
Beloved youth, you will have your trials and temptations through which you must pass, but there are great moments of eternity which lie ahead. You have our love and our confidence. We pray that you will be prepared for the reins of leadership. We say to you, "Arise and shine forth" and be a light unto the world, a standard to others.
Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.
The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.
If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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