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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

By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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Healthy Large Life
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 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
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
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
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
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
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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Team Way Winning
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
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
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
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
I see a little progress, … So as long as I keep seeing that, then I’m willing to give him everything I’ve got.
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Giving Long Progress
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
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
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Dwell Media Negativity
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
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
I have always felt like you really don’t have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.
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Ability Confidence Insightful Like Something You
All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn’t any hole to run through.
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Games Holes Running
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
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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Blame Expect Nothing
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
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Coaching Player Sports

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