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

Bill Parcells

There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
I’m not really in the excuse business.
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Excuse Football Game Inspiring
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
If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.
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Dinner Groceries 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
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
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
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
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
I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
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Looks Problem Variables
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
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
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
Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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Enough Good Letting

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