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Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

Bill Parcells

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That’s pretty narrow… I don’t view myself as a person who’s well-versed in very many subjects. I’m not proud of that.
BILL PARCELLS

Person Sports Subject Thinking Views
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.
BILL PARCELLS

Better Gratification Happened Quarterly Reports
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
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
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
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.
BILL PARCELLS

Motivational Sports Together Trying
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
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Coaching Player Sports
Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
BILL PARCELLS

Done Havens Mean
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
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
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
BILL PARCELLS

Football Motivational Season Work
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
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.
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Coaches Ems Little Player Tantrums Temper
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
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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