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Bill Parcells

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
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
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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Baby Effectiveness Pain
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
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
Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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Enough Good Letting
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
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’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
God’s been good to me, He really has.
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Been Good Helping Really
In the end, I’ve found, people like the direct approach. It’s much more valuable to them to have a leader who’s absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.
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Circles Leader People
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 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
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
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Country Disaster Things
Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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Done Havens Mean
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
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
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
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
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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Affected Mean Way
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
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying

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