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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
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Football Head Coach
Englewood
New Jersey
Duane Charles Parcells
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Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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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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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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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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I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
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Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
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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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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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Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
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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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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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By and large, I've been healthy all my life.
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Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
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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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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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Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.
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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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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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