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Commit yourself to something you have a passion for.

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If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.
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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
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On occasion I omit commas. On occasion, I use them. (The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think there are unbreakable rules for a lot of these things.)
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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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Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform.
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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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The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
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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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Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
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Act like a VIP and become a VIP
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
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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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People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... 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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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.
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We all know gifs are pronounced jifs, right? Their creator says so, damn it!
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