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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.

Bill Parcells

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.
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Football Guy Looks Profession Reason
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
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring
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
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 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
Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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Done Havens Mean
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
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
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
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
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Country Disaster Things
The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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Beforehand Count Creative Relaxed
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 was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
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
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young

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