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I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

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
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I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.
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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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I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.
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Potential means you haven't done anything yet.
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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 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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You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.
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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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