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Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.

Bill Parcells

A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.
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Coaches Thinking Wolves
I’m a little superstitious.
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Happen Littles Superstitious
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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Blame Expect Nothing
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
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
Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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Done Havens Mean
Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked
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Giving Merited Overlooked Player Roles
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 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 don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
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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Athlete Care Competition
I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don’t have any regard for anyone else’s perception.
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Motivational Perception Sports Team
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.

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