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Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy

Bill Parcells

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 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
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
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
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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Affected Mean Way
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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Coaching Player Think Thinking
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
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’m not really in the excuse business.
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Excuse Football Game Inspiring
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
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
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Basketball Commitment Team
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -‘Fix it’- whether it’s their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Faults Player Something Trust Wrong
I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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Looks Problem Variables
Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
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Judgment Motivational Sports
Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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Team Way Winning
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs 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
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
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
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
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
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
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Coaching Player Sports
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

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