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Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.

Bill Parcells

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
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.
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Anyway Attitude Better Weak
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
Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.
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Hate Learn Opportunities Opportunity
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
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 grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
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Expected Grew People Toes
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
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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Dinner Groceries Want
By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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Healthy Large Life
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, ‘Do you think I’m Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?’ After that, they called me Tuna.
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Coaching Player Think Thinking
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Coaching Player Sports

Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.

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