Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
BILL PARCELLSYou don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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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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Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
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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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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.
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Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
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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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We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.
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You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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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.
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By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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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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There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
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If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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