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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

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
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Game Inspiring Football Thinking
I’m not really in the excuse business.
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Excuse Football Game Inspiring
Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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Enough Good Letting
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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Circles Leader People
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
By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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Healthy Large Life
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
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Country Disaster Things
The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
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Criticism Hurt Player
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
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
God’s been good to me, He really has.
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Been Good Helping Really
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
I love the game. I think it’s a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week.
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Game Motivational Sports Sunday Think

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