Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.
BILL PARCELLSThe thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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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 don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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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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We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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I’m a little superstitious.
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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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The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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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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Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked
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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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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.
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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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There is winning and there is misery.
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