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Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

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
Play
Lets
Fast
Confidence
Knowledge

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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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If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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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 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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Potential means you haven't done anything yet.
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Success is never final, but failure can be.
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By and large, I've been healthy all my life.
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I'm a little superstitious.
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I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.
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Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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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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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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Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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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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Don't ever let good enough be good enough.
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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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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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