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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.

Bill Parcells

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.
BILL PARCELLS

Instruction Position Talking Team Variables
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
BILL PARCELLS

Motivational Needs Sports
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.
BILL PARCELLS

Indiscriminate Motivational Quarterback Sports
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I’m no different.
BILL PARCELLS

Coaching Different Game InterAction Player
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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Circles Leader People
I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don’t have any regard for anyone else’s perception.
BILL PARCELLS

Motivational Perception Sports Team
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
BILL PARCELLS

Dwell Media Negativity
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
BILL PARCELLS

Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
I’m a little superstitious.
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Happen Littles Superstitious
It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.
BILL PARCELLS

Anyway Attitude Better Weak
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
BILL PARCELLS

Basketball Commitment Team
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
BILL PARCELLS

Player Problem Vices
The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
BILL PARCELLS

Beforehand Count Creative Relaxed
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
BILL PARCELLS

Coaching Player Sports

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