Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth16 July 1943
CountryUnited States of America
above feared objective truth
An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.
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I've heard all the coaches complaining about the new CBA rules limiting padded practice. I don't like the reduction to just 15 padded practices during the season. When I coached, we always practiced in pads; and three days a week.
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Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble.
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Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
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Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.
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I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.
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The other thing was that when I was at the University of Miami, we ran a pro-style offense and defense. I started each year by going to a pro training camp, I visited with various pro coaches, and I did this for five years.
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There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be efficient in practice without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremely successful when all the other teams were practicing in pads.
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With 'Survivor' - I didn't get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water... plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That's what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.
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Yeah, I wasn't real happy ... at that point, ... Being inside of somebody is pretty difficult here and especially coming off the turn. There were a couple of close calls where I almost spun off inside of him and got a little upset. But fortunately it didn't have an effect on the outcome of the race.
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Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
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Three road games. That's a long trip across the country (to Seattle). This was a beat-up football team and a tired football team.
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When it runs out, you may have a stutter that will last three seconds and then it's empty. When it's over, it's over.
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We didn't get off to a good start last year and still almost won it, so we know what can happen.