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You lose with potential. You win with performance.

Bill Parcells

Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
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Judgment Motivational Sports
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
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 don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
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
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
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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Believe Long Relationship Years
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’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
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
God’s been good to me, He really has.
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Been Good Helping Really
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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Affected Mean Way
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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Blame Expect Nothing
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
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 don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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Looks Problem Variables
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
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
You are what your record says you are.
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Individual Records Say
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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Motivational Sports Two Sides
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 grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
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Expected Grew People Toes
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
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
Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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Done Havens Mean

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