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I’m glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, … It’s just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I’m happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.

Bill Parcells

You are what your record says you are.
BILL PARCELLS

Individual Records Say
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 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
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
I’ve been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.
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Enough Player Potential Team Want
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
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, ‘Do you think I’m Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?’ After that, they called me Tuna.
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Coaching Player Think Thinking
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
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
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
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
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 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 was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill

I’m glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, … It’s just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I’m happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.

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I’m glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, … It’s just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I’m happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.

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