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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
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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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You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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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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I'm not really in the excuse business.
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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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I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker.
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I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
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Don't ever let good enough be good enough.
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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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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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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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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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God's been good to me, He really has.
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I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.
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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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