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.
BILL PARCELLSYou lose with potential. You win with performance.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Well, I’ve had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they’ve been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I’ve used them for many, many years.
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If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don’t care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
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If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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God’s been good to me, He really has.
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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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I’m not really in the excuse business.
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If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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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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Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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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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I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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Success is never final, but failure can be.
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