Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
BILL PARCELLSIf 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.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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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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If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
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The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
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There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
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I just try to do the best job I possibly can – put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can – you’ve put forth your greatest effort – then I can live with whatever’s next.
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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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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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There’s no grey area, there’s instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We’re not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.
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I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.
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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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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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You are what your record says you are.
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Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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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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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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