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

Bill Parcells

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
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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Enough Player Potential Team Want
I love the game. I think it’s a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week.
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Game Motivational Sports Sunday Think
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
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire 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
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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Motivational Sports Two Sides
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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Motivational Sports Together Trying
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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Football Guy Looks Profession Reason
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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College Fighting Windmill
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
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
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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Blame Expect Nothing
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Hands Past People
A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart
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Adversity Basketball Team
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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Coaches Ems Little Player Tantrums Temper
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Define Great Less World
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
Success is never final, but failure can be.
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Positive Sports Success
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
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
Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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Baby Effectiveness Pain
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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Confrontation Nowadays Wells
It’s a very easy thing to say, ‘Go get a backup quarterback.’ Now tell me where to get them. You just can’t dial them up.
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Backup Easy Quarterback
I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
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Expected Grew People Toes
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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Person Sports Subject Thinking Views

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