Bill Parcells famous quotes

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

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

#Mean #Way

A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart
-- Bill Parcells

#Basketball #Team #Adversity

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.
-- Bill Parcells

#Play

You can only really yell at the players you trust.
-- Bill Parcells

#Sports #Player

Confidence is only born out of one thing ­ demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.
-- Bill Parcells

#Dream #Wrestling #Wish

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning
-- Bill Parcells

#Basketball #Team #Winning

Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
-- Bill Parcells

#Basketball #Team #Commitment

I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.
-- Bill Parcells

#Worry #Might #Living My Life

You lose with potential.  You win with performance.
-- Bill Parcells

#Winning #Performances

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.
-- Bill Parcells

#Motivational #Sports #Team

The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
-- Bill Parcells

#Creative #Relaxed

Success is never final, but failure can be.
-- Bill Parcells

#Positive #Success #Sports

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.
-- Bill Parcells

#Jobs #Effort #Trying

There is winning and there is misery.
-- Bill Parcells

#Sports #Winning #Nfl

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.
-- Bill Parcells

#Teacher #Succeed #Students

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
-- Bill Parcells

#Thinking #Nfl #Inspiring Football

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

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

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.
-- Bill Parcells

#Hard Times #Sensitive

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

If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.
-- Bill Parcells

#Fun #Life And Death #Having Fun

I'm not really in the excuse business.
-- Bill Parcells

#Nfl #Excuse #Inspiring Football

When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
-- Bill Parcells

#Jealous #Get Jealous

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

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.
-- Bill Parcells

#Sports #Winning #Games

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
-- Bill Parcells

#Confrontation #Wells

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.
-- Bill Parcells

#Trust #Player #Faults

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
-- Bill Parcells

#Nfl #Trying #Inspiring Football

Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.
-- Bill Parcells

#Worry #Guy #Balls

By and large, I've been healthy all my life.
-- Bill Parcells

#Healthy

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
-- Bill Parcells

#Looks #Variables #Problem

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
-- Bill Parcells

#Player #Vices #Problem

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

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

#People #Toes #Mark

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
-- Bill Parcells

#New York #Two #Nfl

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

The media dwells mostly on negativity.
-- Bill Parcells

#Media #Negativity

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.
-- Bill Parcells

#Football #Guy #Looks

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
-- Bill Parcells

#Trying

I'm a little superstitious.
-- Bill Parcells

#Littles #Superstitious

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

I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
-- Bill Parcells

#Football #Thinking #Nfl

I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
-- Bill Parcells

#Spring #House

God's been good to me, He really has.
-- Bill Parcells

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.
-- Bill Parcells

#Player #Cold

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
-- Bill Parcells

#Sports #Thinking #Views

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

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.
-- Bill Parcells

#Athlete #Competition #Care

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

I got more money than I can spend now.
-- Bill Parcells

#More Money

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

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

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

Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
-- Bill Parcells

#Proximity #Creatures

Well, I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they've been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I've used them for many, many years.
-- Bill Parcells

#Believe #Years #Long

There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.
-- Bill Parcells

#Player #Ems #Tantrums

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

#Loss #Guy #Young

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

#Worry #Live Your Life

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
-- Bill Parcells

#Fighting #College #Windmills

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
-- Bill Parcells

#Thinking #Air #Nfl

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

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.
-- Bill Parcells

#Motivational #Sports #Sunday

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.
-- Bill Parcells

#Motivational #Sports #Needs

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

#Motivational #Sports #Judgment

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.
-- Bill Parcells

#Team #Winning #Games

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

You are what your record says you are.
-- Bill Parcells

#Records

I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker,
-- Bill Parcells

#Eye #Sucker

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.
-- Bill Parcells

#Dream #Born #Ability

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

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
-- Bill Parcells

#Motivational #Football #Hey

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 #Like You #Genuine

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.
-- Bill Parcells

#Player #Thinking #Coaching

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.
-- Bill Parcells

#Soccer #Sports #Football

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

Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.
-- Bill Parcells

#Motivational #Sports #Trying

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

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 #Wagons

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

#Attitude #Weak

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

#Sports #Average #Expectations

Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
-- Bill Parcells

#Team #Winning #Way

What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
-- Bill Parcells

#Past #Hands #People

A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.
-- Bill Parcells

#Thinking #Coaches

Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
-- Bill Parcells

#Team #Winning #Groups

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
-- Bill Parcells

#Blame #Expect Nothing

Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
-- Bill Parcells

#Baby #Pain #Effectiveness

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.
-- Bill Parcells

#Hate #Opportunity #Steps

We're not playing solitaire out here.
-- Bill Parcells

#Motivational #Sports

This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.
-- Bill Parcells

#Motivational #Sports #Doubt

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

#Motivational #Sports #Two Sides

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
-- Bill Parcells

#Hurt #Player #Criticism