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I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.

Bill Parcells

Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked
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Giving Merited Overlooked Player Roles
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 think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.
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Anyway Attitude Better Weak
I’m a little superstitious.
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Happen Littles Superstitious
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Around Bowl Jealous Super
I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.
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Motivational Sports Worry
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
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Country Disaster Things
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
Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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Team Way Winning
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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Blame Expect Nothing
Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
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Enough Good Letting
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
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
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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Baby Effectiveness Pain
If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
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Game Inspiring Football Thinking
The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He’s handing it out here and there, but he can’t just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.
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Indiscriminate Motivational Quarterback Sports
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
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Basketball Commitment Team
I’m not really in the excuse business.
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Excuse Football Game Inspiring
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Coaching Player 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
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring
The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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Beforehand Count Creative Relaxed

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