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 PARCELLSI’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.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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I’m a little superstitious.
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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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There is winning and there is misery.
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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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I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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God’s been good to me, He really has.
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You are what your record says you are.
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If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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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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No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.
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I’m not really in the excuse business.
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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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