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It’s a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It’s easier, but it’s not more comfortable.

Bill Parcells

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
I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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Looks Problem Variables
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
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
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
You are what your record says you are.
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Individual Records Say
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
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
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
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
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
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
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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Beforehand Count Creative Relaxed

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