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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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Performance
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In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.
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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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You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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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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Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?
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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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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 don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
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Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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Don't ever let good enough be good enough.
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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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We're not playing solitaire out here.
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It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.
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God's been good to me, He really has.
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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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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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What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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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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