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Success is never final, but failure can be.

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
Failure
Positive
Sports
Success
Never
Nfl
Final
Finals

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I got more money than I can spend now.
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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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A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart
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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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You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.
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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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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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Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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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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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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God's been good to me, He really has.
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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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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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