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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.

Bill Parcells

When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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Confrontation Nowadays Wells
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I’m no different.
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Coaching Different Game InterAction Player
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
Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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Baby Effectiveness Pain
I’m a little superstitious.
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Happen Littles Superstitious
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
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
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring
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
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
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
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 think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
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
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
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 are what your record says you are.
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Individual Records Say
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
My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.
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Average Expectations Prognosticators Sports
The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
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Criticism Hurt Player

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