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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
Anybody
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I'm a little superstitious.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.
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Potential means you haven't done anything yet.
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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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You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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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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I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker.
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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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I'm not really in the excuse business.
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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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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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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 ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.
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