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.
BILL PARCELLSThere are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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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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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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We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
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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.
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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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The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
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Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You’re trying to put in the right ingredients.
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You are what your record says you are.
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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.
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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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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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My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.
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I’m not really in the excuse business.
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I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect 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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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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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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Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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