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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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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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Basketball

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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 think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
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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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Don't ever let good enough be good enough.
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Success is never final, but failure can be.
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When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.
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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 love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.
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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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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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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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