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Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.
Bill Parcells
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Bill Parcells
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 22
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Football Head Coach
Englewood
New Jersey
Duane Charles Parcells
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