If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
BILL PARCELLSLook, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I’m no different.
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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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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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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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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I love the game. I think it’s a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week.
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I see a little progress, … So as long as I keep seeing that, then I’m willing to give him everything I’ve got.
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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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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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Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I’m no different.
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Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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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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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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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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