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.
BILL PARCELLSIf the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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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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A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart
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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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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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A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.
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I have always felt like you really don’t have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.
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There is winning and there is misery.
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Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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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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You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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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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I see a little progress, … So as long as I keep seeing that, then I’m willing to give him everything I’ve got.
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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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