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There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.

Bill Parcells

I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
BILL PARCELLS

Motivational Needs Sports
I’ll call somebody ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’ if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don’t know any other word for it, and if they don’t like the word, that’s too bad.
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Dumb Make Play Stupid Word
My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.
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Average Expectations Prognosticators Sports
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
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
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
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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Dream Wish Wrestling
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
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
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.
BILL PARCELLS

Circles Leader People
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 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.
BILL PARCELLS

Indiscriminate Motivational Quarterback Sports
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
BILL PARCELLS

Player Problem Vices
You are what your record says you are.
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Individual Records Say
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.
BILL PARCELLS

Enough Player Potential Team Want
Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.
BILL PARCELLS

Hate Learn Opportunities Opportunity

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