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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.

Bill Parcells

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Bill Parcells
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 22
American Football Player
Coach
Football Head Coach
Englewood
New Jersey
Duane Charles Parcells
Basketball
Sports
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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
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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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You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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Success is never final, but failure can be.
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I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.
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I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
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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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My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.
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I'm a little superstitious.
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