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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.

Bill Parcells

It’s a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It’s easier, but it’s not more comfortable.
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Comfortable Easier Winning
Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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Baby Effectiveness Pain
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
There’s a line, players usually don’t cross it and coaches usually don’t cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had ’em. I’m not proud of those.
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Coaches Ems Little Player Tantrums Temper
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
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
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
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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Balls Happy Preseason Sharp Team Winning
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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Affected Mean Way
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 was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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Beforehand Count Creative Relaxed
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
Success is never final, but failure can be.
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Positive Sports Success
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young

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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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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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.