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If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.

Bill Parcells

I just try to do the best job I possibly can – put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can – you’ve put forth your greatest effort – then I can live with whatever’s next.
BILL PARCELLS

Best Effort Job Possibly
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
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
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Football Motivational Season Work
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
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
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
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
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Basketball Commitment Team
Well, I’ve had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they’ve been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I’ve used them for many, many years.
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Believe Long Relationship Years
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
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
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
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, ‘Do you think I’m Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?’ After that, they called me Tuna.
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Coaching Player Think Thinking
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Guy Loss Young
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
There is winning and there is misery.
BILL PARCELLS

Misery Sports Winning

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