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My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.

Bill Parcells

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
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
Confidence is only born out of one thing demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.
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Dream Wish Wrestling
I’m glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, … It’s just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I’m happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.
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Balls Happy Preseason Sharp Team Winning
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
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
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
My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.
BILL PARCELLS

Average Expectations Prognosticators Sports
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
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.
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Backup Easy Quarterback
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Coaching Player Sports
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
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
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
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning

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