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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

Success is never final, but failure can be.
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Positive Sports Success
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
By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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Healthy Large Life
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
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Basketball Commitment Team
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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Confrontation Nowadays Wells
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
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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Football Guy Looks Profession Reason
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
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
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
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
I’m a little superstitious.
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Happen Littles Superstitious
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -‘Fix it’- whether it’s their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Faults Player Something Trust Wrong
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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Game Inspiring Football Thinking
The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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Beforehand Count Creative Relaxed

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