Bill Walsh famous quotes

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Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
-- Bill Walsh

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If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
-- Bill Walsh

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The things that make me different are the things that make me.
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.

Bill Walsh famous quotes

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