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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
Performance
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Winning

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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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I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
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Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.
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Success is never final, but failure can be.
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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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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 don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
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I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.
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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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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'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
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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'm a little superstitious.
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I got more money than I can spend now.
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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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I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.
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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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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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Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?
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