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It’s a very easy thing to say, ‘Go get a backup quarterback.’ Now tell me where to get them. You just can’t dial them up.

Bill Parcells

If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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Enough Good Letting
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 was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.
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Average Expectations Prognosticators Sports
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
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
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.
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Motivational Perception Sports Team
All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn’t any hole to run through.
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Games Holes Running
I’m a little superstitious.
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Happen Littles Superstitious
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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Team Way Winning
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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Game Motivational Sports Sunday Think
A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.
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Coaches Thinking Wolves
The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
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Criticism Hurt Player
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
It’s a very easy thing to say, ‘Go get a backup quarterback.’ Now tell me where to get them. You just can’t dial them up.
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Backup Easy Quarterback
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -‘Fix it’- whether it’s their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Faults Player Something Trust Wrong
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 just try to do the best job I possibly can – put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can – you’ve put forth your greatest effort – then I can live with whatever’s next.
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Best Effort Job Possibly
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
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
I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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Looks Problem Variables

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