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Bill Parcells

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
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 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
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
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
I’m a little superstitious.
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Happen Littles Superstitious
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
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Country Disaster Things
If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.
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Dinner Groceries Want
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
I just try to do the best job I possibly can – put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can – you’ve put forth your greatest effort – then I can live with whatever’s next.
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Best Effort Job Possibly
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
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
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

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