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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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Bill Parcells
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 22
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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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Success is never final, but failure can be.
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Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
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I'm not really in the excuse business.
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When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
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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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A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart
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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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I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.
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My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.
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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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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 get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He's handing it out here and there, but he can't just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.
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I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.
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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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