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You lose with potential. You win with performance.

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
Winning
Performance
Potential
Performances
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Anybody who watched football last year knows they're good. But that represents a very good opportunity for us. It really does. I think somehow, if we're able to pull that off, I think it will go a long way for our confidence. I look at it as a great opportunity, and hopefully we'll be at our best when we get there.
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We're not playing solitaire out here.
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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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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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I'm not really in the excuse business.
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By and large, I've been healthy all my life.
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Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
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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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What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.
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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 talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.
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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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My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.
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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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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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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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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'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
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