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I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.

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
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
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
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
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
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’ll call somebody ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’ if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don’t know any other word for it, and if they don’t like the word, that’s too bad.
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Dumb Make Play Stupid Word
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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Coaches Ems Little Player Tantrums Temper
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
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
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
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Judgment Motivational Sports
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
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
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning

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