Bill Parcells Quotes - Page 2

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• Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Games

  Bill Parcells (1995). “Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation”, Doubleday Books

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• There is winning and there is misery.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Winning, Nfl

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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.

  Bill Parcells

  Basketball, Sports, Different

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• My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Jobs

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• You lose with potential. You win with performance.

  Bill Parcells

  Winning, Performances, Loses

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• It's better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway.

  Bill Parcells

  Attitude, Weak, Ifs

  Bill Parcells (1995). “Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation”, Doubleday Books

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• If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.

  Bill Parcells

  Mean, Way, Affected

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• You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.

  Bill Parcells

  Dream, Born, Ability

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• Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Giving, Roles

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• You can only really yell at the players you trust.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Player, Coaching

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• Success is never final, but failure can be.

  Bill Parcells

  Positive, Success, Sports

  Bill Parcells, Nunyo Demasio (2014). “Parcells: A Football Life”, p.23, Crown Archetype

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• Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.

  Bill Parcells

  Baby, Pain, Effectiveness

  Bill Parcells (1995). “Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation”, Doubleday Books

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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.

  Bill Parcells

  Circles, People, Leader

  Harvard Business Review, Alex Ferguson, Bill Parcells, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Joe Girardi (2018). “HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)”, p.48, Harvard Business Press

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• I'm not really in the excuse business.

  Bill Parcells

  Nfl, Excuse, Inspiring Football

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• If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

  Bill Parcells

  Hard Times, Sensitive, Hard

  "Serby’s special Sunday Q & A with hall-of-fame-bound coach… Bill Parcells". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. July 28, 2013.

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• There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Two Sides

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• I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.

  Bill Parcells

  Worry, Might, Living My Life

  "Names & Faces". www.sfgate.com. March 29, 2012.

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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.

  Bill Parcells

  Stupid, Play, Nfl

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• Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Nfl, Coaching

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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.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Player, Guy

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• I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Needs

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• It's a very easy thing to say, 'Go get a backup quarterback.' Now tell me where to get them. You just can't dial them up.

  Bill Parcells

  Easy, Quarterback, Backup

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• I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker.

  Bill Parcells

  Eye, Sucker, I Can

  Bill Parcells, Nunyo Demasio (2014). “Parcells: A Football Life”, p.698, Crown Archetype

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• Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Judgment

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• The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Worry

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