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.
BILL PARCELLSI’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.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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I’m a little superstitious.
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Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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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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I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
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When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don’t have any regard for anyone else’s perception.
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The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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You are what your record says you are.
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You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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