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What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

Bill Parcells

We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
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
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
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
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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Motivational Sports Two Sides
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
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
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
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
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
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
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I’m no different.
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Coaching Different Game InterAction Player
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

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