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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

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
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Expected Grew People Toes
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
There’s no grey area, there’s instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We’re not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.
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Better Gratification Happened Quarterly Reports
I’m not really in the excuse business.
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Excuse Football Game Inspiring
No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.
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Games Sports Winning
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
I love the game. I think it’s a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week.
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Game Motivational Sports Sunday Think
A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart
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Adversity Basketball Team
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -‘Fix it’- whether it’s their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Faults Player Something Trust Wrong
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
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Country Disaster Things
It’s a very easy thing to say, ‘Go get a backup quarterback.’ Now tell me where to get them. You just can’t dial them up.
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Backup Easy Quarterback
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
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Basketball Commitment Team

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

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