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.
BILL PARCELLSLook, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I’m no different.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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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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I have always felt like you really don’t have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.
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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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I’m not really in the excuse business.
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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.
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I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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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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I’m a little superstitious.
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Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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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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I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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There is winning and there is misery.
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