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

Bill Parcells

You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Coaching Player Sports
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
I see a little progress, … So as long as I keep seeing that, then I’m willing to give him everything I’ve got.
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Giving Long Progress
A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart
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Adversity Basketball Team
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
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
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
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
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
I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
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Expected Grew People Toes
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
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
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 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
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
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life

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