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If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.

Bill Parcells

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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Faults Player Something Trust Wrong
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun 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
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’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
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
You are what your record says you are.
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Individual Records Say
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
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
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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Affected Mean Way
God’s been good to me, He really has.
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Been Good Helping Really
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
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
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’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
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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If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.

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