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The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.

Bill Parcells

I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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Looks Problem Variables
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
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
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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Healthy Large Life
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
Success is never final, but failure can be.
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Positive Sports Success
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
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
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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Confrontation Nowadays Wells
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
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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Blame Expect Nothing
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
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
Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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Baby Effectiveness Pain

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