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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.

Bill Parcells

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.
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Hate Learn Opportunities Opportunity
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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Blame Expect Nothing
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
It’s a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It’s easier, but it’s not more comfortable.
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Comfortable Easier Winning
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
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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Beaten Down Motivational Sports Team
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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Looks Problem Variables
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
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
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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Done Havens Mean
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn’t any hole to run through.
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Games Holes Running

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