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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.

Bill Parcells

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
Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.
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Hate Learn Opportunities Opportunity
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
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
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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Happens Life Live Worry
I’m glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, … It’s just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I’m happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.
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Balls Happy Preseason Sharp Team Winning
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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Motivational Solitaire Sports
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
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
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
Success is never final, but failure can be.
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Positive Sports Success
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
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
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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Affected Mean Way
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
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

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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