Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh
William Ernest Walshwas the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense. After retiring from the 49ers, Walsh worked as a sports broadcaster for several years and then returned as head coach at Stanford for three seasons...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth30 November 1931
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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We had an excellent coaching staff, a great attitude among the players and that youthful enthusiasm, It was a team that really shouldn't have been where we were.
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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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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.
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There's a connection between those teams, ... The quarterback in particular plays so much like Joe Montana. New England plays as a group. The Patriots are heavy in teamwork and commitment.
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Once a Marine, always a Marine. The challenge and the camaraderie with players and coaches, no one experiences anything like that but in team sports, especially football. It's almost like a chemical dependency. Whereas losses used to destroy them, now they have the wisdom to be able to move on easier.
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Notre Dame is very difficult because the expectations and the impatience of the alums is overwhelming, ... They want it to be like it once was and I'm not sure it ever will be. He presented them with a tremendous first season (10-3 in 2002) but he never really had a quarterback who could carry the team and win for him.
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The difference between the Patriots and those Steelers teams is that there were other great teams in the AFC back then, like Miami and Oakland,
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I thought somebody was trying to put me on. Someone trying to poke fun at me. I'll tell you what, I didn't fall for it, though.
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I thought it was timely. He wanted to play one more year, and he did everything he could possibly do to make it happen. It didn't work out, but that's OK. I think Mike Shanahan handled it beautifully, and I think Jerry moves on with his health and as probably the greatest player of his era and certainly the greatest player ever at his position.
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Jim's a dynamic man with incredible determination, willpower and energy. He's the ultimate in a driven person who has high expectations. The people around him respond. He's on the cutting edge with an outstanding football mind.
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I'm here, I've been here for a year, I'm of course familiar with the university, ... I know lot of the people. It could be I was needed. It appears, and most people agree, I would be the logical person.
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I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.
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Joe might have been more active and quicker on his feet,
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we just can't miss an athlete. Our recruiting program has to be the very, very best.