If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
BILL PARCELLSI 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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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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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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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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Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You’re trying to put in the right ingredients.
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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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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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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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Success is never final, but failure can be.
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God’s been good to me, He really has.
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Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.
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Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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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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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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You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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