My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That’s pretty narrow… I don’t view myself as a person who’s well-versed in very many subjects. I’m not proud of that.
BILL PARCELLSThe media dwells mostly on negativity.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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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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Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
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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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A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.
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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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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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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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The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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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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We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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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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Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.
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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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