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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.

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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Potential

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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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It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.
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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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Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
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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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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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Potential means you haven't done anything yet.
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If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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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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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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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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The media dwells mostly on negativity.
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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 have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.
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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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Success is never final, but failure can be.
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I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.
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Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?
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