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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More Bill Parcells Quotes
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The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
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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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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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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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I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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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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The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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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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If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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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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I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.
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My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That’s pretty narrow… I don’t view myself as a person who’s well-versed in very many subjects. I’m not proud of that.
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Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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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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If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
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God’s been good to me, He really has.
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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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You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don’t care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
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Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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