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I’m a little superstitious.

Bill Parcells

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.
BILL PARCELLS

Football Guy Looks Profession Reason
I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.
BILL PARCELLS

Motivational Sports Worry
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 the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
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
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
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Coaching Player Sports
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
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
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -‘Fix it’- whether it’s their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Faults Player Something Trust Wrong
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
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Blame Expect Nothing
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
I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you’ve been beaten down a few times.
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Beaten Down Motivational Sports Team
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
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
God’s been good to me, He really has.
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Been Good Helping Really

I’m a little superstitious.

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