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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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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
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I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.
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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 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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I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker.
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I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.
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You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning
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I'm a little superstitious.
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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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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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You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.
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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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By and large, I've been healthy all my life.
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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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