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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

Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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Done Havens Mean
I love the game. I think it’s a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week.
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Game Motivational Sports Sunday Think
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
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
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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Better Gratification Happened Quarterly Reports
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
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
In the end, I’ve found, people like the direct approach. It’s much more valuable to them to have a leader who’s absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.
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Circles Leader People
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Coaching Player Sports
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
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Criticism Hurt Player
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
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
It’s a very easy thing to say, ‘Go get a backup quarterback.’ Now tell me where to get them. You just can’t dial them up.
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Backup Easy Quarterback
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super

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