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You lose with potential. You win with performance.

Bill Parcells

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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Enough Player Potential Team Want
Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
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Judgment Motivational Sports
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
I’m a little superstitious.
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Happen Littles Superstitious
Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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Done Havens Mean
You are what your record says you are.
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Individual Records Say
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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Football Motivational Season Work
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
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Basketball Commitment Team
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.
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Hate Learn Opportunities Opportunity
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring
I’m not really in the excuse business.
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Excuse Football Game Inspiring
I’ll call somebody ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’ if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don’t know any other word for it, and if they don’t like the word, that’s too bad.
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Dumb Make Play Stupid Word
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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Motivational Sports Together Trying
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports

You lose with potential. You win with performance.

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