It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.
BILL PARCELLSGod’s been good to me, He really has.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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I’ve been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.
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Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
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God’s been good to me, He really has.
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I’m glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, … It’s just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I’m happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.
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There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
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If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.
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You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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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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Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.
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The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He’s handing it out here and there, but he can’t just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.
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You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.
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Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
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Well, I’ve had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they’ve been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I’ve used them for many, many years.
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I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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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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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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Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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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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All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn’t any hole to run through.
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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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