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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.

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
Motivational
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Sports
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Power
Find
Beaten
Never
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Staying

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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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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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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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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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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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Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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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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The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He's handing it out here and there, but he can't just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.
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Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.
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Don't ever let good enough be good enough.
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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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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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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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God's been good to me, He really has.
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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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I'm not really in the excuse business.
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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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By and large, I've been healthy all my life.
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