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Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.

Bill Parcells

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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Confrontation Nowadays Wells
I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.
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Motivational Sports Worry
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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Affected Mean Way
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
God’s been good to me, He really has.
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Been Good Helping Really
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
Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked
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Giving Merited Overlooked Player Roles
If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.
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Dinner Groceries Want
I’m not really in the excuse business.
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Excuse Football Game Inspiring
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
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
Success is never final, but failure can be.
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Positive Sports Success
I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.
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Instruction Position Talking Team Variables
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

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