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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

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
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Football Motivational Season Work
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
I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.
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Instruction Position Talking Team Variables
All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn’t any hole to run through.
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Games Holes Running
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
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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Enough Good Letting
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
It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.
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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
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Adversity Basketball Team
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’ve been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.
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Enough Player Potential Team Want
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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Motivational Sports Two Sides
By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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Healthy Large Life
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
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

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

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