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Bill Parcells

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you’ve been beaten down a few times.
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Beaten Down Motivational Sports Team
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
Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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Enough Good Letting
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
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 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
God’s been good to me, He really has.
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Been Good Helping Really
I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
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Expected Grew People Toes
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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Dream Wish Wrestling
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
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
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
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
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring

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