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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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I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.
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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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I got more money than I can spend now.
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I'm not really in the excuse business.
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Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.
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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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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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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 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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I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.
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Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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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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God's been good to me, He really has.
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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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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.
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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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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Confidence is only born out of one thing ­ demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.
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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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