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.
BILL PARCELLSThe media dwells mostly on negativity.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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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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There is winning and there is misery.
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What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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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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It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.
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When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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I just try to do the best job I possibly can – put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can – you’ve put forth your greatest effort – then I can live with whatever’s next.
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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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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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Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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God’s been good to me, He really has.
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There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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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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