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Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.

Bill Parcells

My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.
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Average Expectations Prognosticators Sports
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
In the end, I’ve found, people like the direct approach. It’s much more valuable to them to have a leader who’s absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.
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Circles Leader People
I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you’ve been beaten down a few times.
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Beaten Down Motivational Sports Team
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
It’s a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It’s easier, but it’s not more comfortable.
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Comfortable Easier Winning
The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
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Football Guy Looks Profession Reason
I’m a little superstitious.
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Happen Littles Superstitious
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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Confrontation Nowadays Wells
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.
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Coaches Thinking Wolves
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, ‘Do you think I’m Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?’ After that, they called me Tuna.
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Coaching Player Think Thinking

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