Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
BILL PARCELLSYou get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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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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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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There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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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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The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
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Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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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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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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I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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There’s no grey area, there’s instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We’re not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.
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The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
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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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There is winning and there is misery.
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