Bill Parcells Quotes - Page 3

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• All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.

  Bill Parcells

  Running, Games, Holes

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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.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Balls

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• I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

  Bill Parcells

  Confidence, Insightful, Like You

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• I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

  Bill Parcells

  People, Toes, Grew Up

  "From XLIII: An interview with Bill Parcells". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. January 31, 2009.

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• I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

  Bill Parcells

  Trying

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• You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

  Bill Parcells

  Loss, Guy, Young

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• I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Worry

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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.

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Example, Feels

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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.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Player, Want

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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.

  Bill Parcells

  Football, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

  Bill Parcells

  Confrontation, Wells, Ifs

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• You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.

  Bill Parcells

  Thinking, Names, Want

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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.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Here And There

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• I see a little progress, ... So as long as I keep seeing that, then I'm willing to give him everything I've got.

  Bill Parcells

  Long, Giving, Progress

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• It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.

  Bill Parcells

  Winning, Easier, Comfortable

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• Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Way

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• The media dwells mostly on negativity.

  Bill Parcells

  Media, Negativity

  Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. August 5, 2012.

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• There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

  Bill Parcells

  New York, Nfl, Two

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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.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Hands, Guy

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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.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Team

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• I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

  Bill Parcells

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Average, Expectations

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• Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.

  Bill Parcells

  Proximity, Creatures, Closest

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• Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?

  Bill Parcells

  Worry, Live Your Life, Happens

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• I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Talking, Variables

  "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with… Bill Parcells". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. July 28, 2013.

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