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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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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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I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
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I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
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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'm a little superstitious.
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I'm not really in the excuse business.
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Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
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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.
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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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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 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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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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If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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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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God's been good to me, He really has.
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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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Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?
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You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.
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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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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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