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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
Sports
Solitaire
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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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When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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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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Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.
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God's been good to me, He really has.
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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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If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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I got more money than I can spend now.
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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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Success is never final, but failure can be.
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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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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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Don't ever let good enough be good enough.
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I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
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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 think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
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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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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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I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
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