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Potential means you haven't done anything yet.

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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
Potential
Havens
Haven
Means
Anything
Done
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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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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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If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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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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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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I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
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Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
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Success is never final, but failure can be.
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Don't ever let good enough be good enough.
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We're not playing solitaire out here.
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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear 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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I'm not really in the excuse business.
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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'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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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'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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I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker.
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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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