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Bill Parcells

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.
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Instruction Position Talking Team Variables
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
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 is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
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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Athlete Care Competition
It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.
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Anyway Attitude Better Weak
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
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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Best Effort Job Possibly
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
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
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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Confrontation Nowadays Wells
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
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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Motivational Sports Two Sides
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

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