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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.

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
Loses
Winning
Comfortable
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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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I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.
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You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.
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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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Success is never final, but failure can be.
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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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Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.
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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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You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.
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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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I'm glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, ... It's just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I'm happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.
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I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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God's been good to me, He really has.
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Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
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I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
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Don't ever let good enough be good enough.
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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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