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You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

Bill Parcells

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
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
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
I’m not really in the excuse business.
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Excuse Football Game Inspiring
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring
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 was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
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
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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Team Way Winning
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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Enough Good Letting
You are what your record says you are.
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Individual Records Say
Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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Done Havens Mean
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
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Death Fine Fun Life

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