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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.

Bill Parcells

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
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
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
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Basketball Commitment Team
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
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Healthy House Spring
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
Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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Team Way Winning
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
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Football Thinking
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
There is winning and there is misery.
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Misery Sports Winning
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
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, ‘Do you think I’m Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?’ After that, they called me Tuna.
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Coaching Player Think Thinking
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
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Coaching Player Sports
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
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

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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