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

Bill Parcells

Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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Enough Good Letting
I’m not really in the excuse business.
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Excuse Football Game Inspiring
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
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
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
By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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Healthy Large Life
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
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
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
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
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
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
The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He’s handing it out here and there, but he can’t just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.
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Indiscriminate Motivational Quarterback Sports
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
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’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
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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Affected Mean Way
I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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Looks Problem Variables
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
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
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
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

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