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You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

Bill Parcells

Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
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Judgment Motivational Sports
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
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
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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Indiscriminate Motivational Quarterback Sports
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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Person Sports Subject Thinking Views
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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Dream Wish Wrestling
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
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
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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Blame Expect Nothing
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
Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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Baby Effectiveness Pain
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Coaching Player Sports
I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.
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Motivational Sports Worry
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
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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Game Inspiring Football Thinking

You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

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