--- title: "7 Bill Walsh Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Bill Walsh quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Bill Walsh sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0e/jimmy-johnson-14982_bill_there-is-a-way-to-practice-hard-and-be-p_312298.png" --- > [There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-johnson/there-is-a-way-to-practice-hard-and-be-physical-without-pads-you-can/) [Jimmy Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0e/jimmy-johnson-14982_bill_there-is-a-way-to-practice-hard-and-be-p_312298.png) > [“Change before you have to.—Jack Welch Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.—Doug…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-verducci/change-before-you-have-to-jack-welch-wisdom-is-the-reward-for-a/) [Tom Verducci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-verducci/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/028/tom-verducci-37149_change_change-before-you-have-to-jack-welch-wis_1291585.jpg) > [Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wilbon/lombardi-shula-landry-and-gibbs-were-innovators-bill-walsh-was-a/) [Michael Wilbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wilbon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/180/michael-wilbon-21629_bills_lombardi-shula-landry-and-gibbs-were-inn_1832697.jpg) > [Bill Walsh was a genius in many ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-young/bill-walsh-was-a-genius-in-many-ways/) [Steve Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-young/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/steve-young-2710_bill_bill-walsh-was-a-genius-in-many-ways-193_1933084.png) > [“What John Ayers was doing seemed routine. But to the few who knew, and watched, it was a thing of beauty. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-lewis/what-john-ayers-was-doing-seemed-routine-but-to-the-few-who-knew-and/) [Michael Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1d/michael-lewis-705_ball-player_what-john-ayers-was-doing-seemed-routine_2106867.jpg) > [When I was growing up, I was a huge San Francisco 49ers fan. The New England Patriots have a similar mold and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-edelman/when-i-was-growing-up-i-was-a-huge-san-francisco-49ers-fan-the-new/) [Julian Edelman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-edelman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50b/julian-edelman-4947_england_when-i-was-growing-up-i-was-a-huge-san-f_2795733.jpg) > [As the West Coast offense has spread out among the NFL, as all of Bill Walsh's assistants and all of Mike Holmgren's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-depodesta/as-the-west-coast-offense-has-spread-out-among-the-nfl-as-all-of-bill/) [Paul DePodesta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-depodesta/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f6/paul-depodesta-16632_head_as-the-west-coast-offense-has-spread-out_3165126.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bill-walsh/#itemlist", "name": "Bill Walsh Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. 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But to the few who knew, and watched, it was a thing of beauty. The ball is snapped and John Ayers sees Taylor coming, and slides quickly back one step and to his left. And as he slides, he steps to meet his future. He’s stepping into 1985, when the turf will be fast and he won’t be able to deal with Lawrence Taylor…. Another quick step, back and left, and it’s 1986, and he’s injured and on the sidelines when the Giants send Joe Montana to the hospital and the 49ers home on the way to their own Super Bowl victory…. A third quick step and he crouches like one power forward denying another access to the hoop. But now it’s 1987 and Coach Bill Walsh is advising John Ayers to retire. Ayers ignores the advice and then learns that Walsh won’t invite him back to training camp…. He takes his final quick step back and left and times his blow, to stop dead in his tracks the most terrifying force ever launched at an NFL quarterback. “I don’t think I’ve ever played against a football player who had more drive and intensity to get to the quarterback,” John Ayers will say, after it’s all over, and he’s been given the game ball by his teammates. “It was almost like he was possessed.”…But now it’s 1995, and John Ayers has just died of cancer, at forty-two, and left behind a wife and two children. Joe Montana charters a plane to fly a dozen teammates to Amarillo, Texas, to serve as pall-bearers. 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