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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

I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.
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Motivational Sports Worry
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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Blame Expect Nothing
I’m not really in the excuse business.
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Excuse Football Game Inspiring
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
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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Ability Confidence Insightful Like Something You
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
It’s a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It’s easier, but it’s not more comfortable.
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Comfortable Easier Winning
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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Confrontation Nowadays Wells
I love the game. I think it’s a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week.
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Game Motivational Sports Sunday Think
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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Giving Long Progress
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
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
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
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
You are what your record says you are.
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Individual Records Say
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
Success is never final, but failure can be.
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Positive Sports Success
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
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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Adversity Basketball Team
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
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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Games Sports Winning
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
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Country Disaster Things
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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Team Way Winning

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