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If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

Bill Parcells

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Bill Parcells
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 22
American Football Player
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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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I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
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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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Anybody who watched football last year knows they're good. But that represents a very good opportunity for us. It really does. I think somehow, if we're able to pull that off, I think it will go a long way for our confidence. I look at it as a great opportunity, and hopefully we'll be at our best when we get there.
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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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My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.
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When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.
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Potential means you haven't done anything yet.
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When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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By and large, I've been healthy all my life.
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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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I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.
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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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