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The 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.

Bill Parcells

Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don’t have any regard for anyone else’s perception.
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Motivational Perception Sports Team
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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Faults Player Something Trust Wrong
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
Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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Enough Good Letting
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
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
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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Best Effort Job Possibly
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life
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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Motivational Sports Together Trying
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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Confrontation Nowadays Wells
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
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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Person Sports Subject Thinking Views
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

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