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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
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Performances

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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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I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
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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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We're not playing solitaire out here.
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Don't ever let good enough be good enough.
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Potential means you haven't done anything yet.
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I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
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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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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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The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
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I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
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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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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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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 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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