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It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.

Bill Parcells

There’s no grey area, there’s instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We’re not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.
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Better Gratification Happened Quarterly Reports
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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Team Way Winning
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
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
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
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
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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Confrontation Nowadays Wells
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
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Coaching Player Sports
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
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
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
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
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

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