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Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I’m no different.

Bill Parcells

We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart
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Adversity Basketball Team
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
I see a little progress, … So as long as I keep seeing that, then I’m willing to give him everything I’ve got.
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Giving Long Progress
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
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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Athlete Care Competition
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
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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Ability Confidence Insightful Like Something You
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
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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Confrontation Nowadays Wells
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
I’ll call somebody ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’ if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don’t know any other word for it, and if they don’t like the word, that’s too bad.
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Dumb Make Play Stupid Word
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
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I’m no different.
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Coaching Different Game InterAction Player
You are what your record says you are.
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Individual Records Say
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
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Basketball Commitment Team
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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Football Motivational Season Work
Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
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Judgment Motivational Sports
A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.
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Coaches Thinking Wolves
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
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
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
There’s a line, players usually don’t cross it and coaches usually don’t cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had ’em. I’m not proud of those.
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Coaches Ems Little Player Tantrums Temper
It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.
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Anyway Attitude Better Weak
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
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

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