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You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

Bill Parcells

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.
BILL PARCELLS

Ability Confidence Insightful Like Something You
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
BILL PARCELLS

College Fighting Windmill
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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Better Gratification Happened Quarterly Reports
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
BILL PARCELLS

Football Thinking
Success is never final, but failure can be.
BILL PARCELLS

Positive Sports Success
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.
BILL PARCELLS

Hate Learn Opportunities Opportunity
I just try to do the best job I possibly can – put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can – you’ve put forth your greatest effort – then I can live with whatever’s next.
BILL PARCELLS

Best Effort Job Possibly
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
BILL PARCELLS

Dwell Media Negativity
The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
BILL PARCELLS

Beforehand Count Creative Relaxed
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.
BILL PARCELLS

Backup Easy Quarterback
I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you’ve been beaten down a few times.
BILL PARCELLS

Beaten Down Motivational Sports Team
It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.
BILL PARCELLS

Anyway Attitude Better Weak
A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart
BILL PARCELLS

Adversity Basketball Team
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
BILL PARCELLS

Happens Life Live Worry
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
BILL PARCELLS

Healthy House Spring

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