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

Bill Parcells

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
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
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
You are what your record says you are.
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Individual Records Say
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
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
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
God’s been good to me, He really has.
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Been Good Helping Really
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
Success is never final, but failure can be.
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Positive Sports Success
Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You’re trying to put in the right ingredients.
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Motivational Sports Together Trying
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
I’m not really in the excuse business.
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Excuse Football Game Inspiring
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
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
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
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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Motivational Sports Two Sides
By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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Healthy Large Life
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
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 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
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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Baby Effectiveness Pain
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
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Football Motivational Season Work

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