Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth16 July 1943
CountryUnited States of America
coaching depends divert far football individual leadership pressure pressures sports
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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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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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.
companies model
Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble.
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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.
above feared objective truth
An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.
encourage people
Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.
chance safe
Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
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Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn't offset the interception or the fumble.
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You can't deny the fact we won the biggest race, we've worked our butts off to get to this point, and we're very proud to be here.
companies model three
Two to three years down the road, ... other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble.
gambler system
find out who's a gambler and who's not and who can outguess the system better.
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We lost last year by eight points, and we had some troubles at the start of the Chase, ... This year, hopefully, we'll make the right decisions and not have any weird things happen to us, and I won't make any mistakes on the racetrack and stay clean throughout.