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I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

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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Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?
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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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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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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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What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
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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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I got more money than I can spend now.
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You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.
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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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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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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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I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.
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I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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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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I'm glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, ... It's just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I'm happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.
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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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If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
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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 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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