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.
BILL PARCELLSWhat sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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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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Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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There’s a line, players usually don’t cross it and coaches usually don’t cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had ’em. I’m not proud of those.
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Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
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We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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You are what your record says you are.
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I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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God’s been good to me, He really has.
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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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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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A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.
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If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, ‘Do you think I’m Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?’ After that, they called me Tuna.
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