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

Bill Parcells

Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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Baby Effectiveness Pain
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you’ve been beaten down a few times.
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Beaten Down Motivational Sports Team
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
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
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
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
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
God’s been good to me, He really has.
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Been Good Helping Really
My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That’s pretty narrow… I don’t view myself as a person who’s well-versed in very many subjects. I’m not proud of that.
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Person Sports Subject Thinking Views
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
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Judgment Motivational Sports
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
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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Motivational Sports Two Sides
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
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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Affected Mean Way
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
My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.
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Average Expectations Prognosticators Sports
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
If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don’t care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
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Athlete Care Competition
Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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Enough Good Letting
I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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Looks Problem Variables

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