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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
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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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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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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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I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.
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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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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'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
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You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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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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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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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'm not really in the excuse business.
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Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.
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I'm a little superstitious.
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I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
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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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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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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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