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I love the game. I think it’s a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week.

Bill Parcells

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
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Criticism Hurt Player
I’m glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, … It’s just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I’m happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.
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Balls Happy Preseason Sharp Team Winning
By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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Healthy Large Life
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
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
If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.
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Dinner Groceries Want
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
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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Blame Expect Nothing
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
God’s been good to me, He really has.
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Been Good Helping Really
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
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
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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Motivational Sports Two Sides
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.
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Circles Leader People
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 spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.
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Instruction Position Talking Team Variables
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
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
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
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
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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Affected Mean Way
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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Athlete Care Competition
Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You’re trying to put in the right ingredients.
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Motivational Sports Together Trying

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