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You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Bill Parcells

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
BILL PARCELLS

Criticism Hurt Player
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.
BILL PARCELLS

Instruction Position Talking Team Variables
Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
BILL PARCELLS

Baby Effectiveness Pain
I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.
BILL PARCELLS

Motivational Sports Worry
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
BILL PARCELLS

Confrontation Nowadays Wells
Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
BILL PARCELLS

Team Way Winning
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
BILL PARCELLS

Motivational Needs Sports
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
BILL PARCELLS

Motivational Sports Two Sides
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
BILL PARCELLS

Dwell Media Negativity
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
BILL PARCELLS

Healthy House Spring
There’s a line, players usually don’t cross it and coaches usually don’t cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had ’em. I’m not proud of those.
BILL PARCELLS

Coaches Ems Little Player Tantrums Temper
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
BILL PARCELLS

Blame Expect Nothing
I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
BILL PARCELLS

Expected Grew People Toes
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

Backup Easy Quarterback
A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.
BILL PARCELLS

Coaches Thinking Wolves
If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.
BILL PARCELLS

Dinner Groceries Want

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