If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
BILL PARCELLSHey 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!
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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God’s been good to me, He really has.
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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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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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When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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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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The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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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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I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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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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I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.
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I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don’t have any regard for anyone else’s perception.
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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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I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you’ve been beaten down a few times.
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