Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.
BILL PARCELLSWhat sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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I just try to do the best job I possibly can – put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can – you’ve put forth your greatest effort – then I can live with whatever’s next.
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If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don’t care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
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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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We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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You are what your record says you are.
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I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.
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There is winning and there is misery.
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Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You’re trying to put in the right ingredients.
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If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Confidence is only born out of one thing demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.
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The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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