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Bill Parcells Inspirational Quotes (58)

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When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.
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By and large, I've been healthy all my life.
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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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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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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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I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.
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You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning
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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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All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.
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Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.
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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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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
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You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.
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Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
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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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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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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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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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Success is never final, but failure can be.
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I'm not really in the excuse business.
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Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.
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Potential means you haven't done anything yet.
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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. 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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