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 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 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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Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He’s handing it out here and there, but he can’t just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.
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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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I’m not really in the excuse business.
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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’m a little superstitious.
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It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.
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Something goes wrong, I yell at them -‘Fix it’- whether it’s their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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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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God’s been good to me, He really has.
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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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