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All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn’t any hole to run through.

Bill Parcells

I have always felt like you really don’t have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.
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Ability Confidence Insightful Like Something You
You are what your record says you are.
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Individual Records Say
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
Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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Done Havens Mean
Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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Team Way Winning
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
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
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
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Basketball Commitment Team
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
I’m a little superstitious.
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Happen Littles Superstitious
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 love the game. I think it’s a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week.
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Game Motivational Sports Sunday Think
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
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
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
The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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Beforehand Count Creative Relaxed
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
I’m not really in the excuse business.
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Excuse Football Game Inspiring
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
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
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports 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
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs 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
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
My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.
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Average Expectations Prognosticators Sports

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