Words matter. These are the best Bill Parcells Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m not really in the excuse business.
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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.
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.
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
You are what you are.
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I’m no different.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don’t feel like I have to.
When I was a young coach, there were people like Chuck Noll, Chuck Knox and Tom Landry who were there for me.
Even when you’re successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic… So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you’re dealing with problems.
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
I’m a little superstitious.
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.
By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
I’m not trying to keep anybody happy.
The NFL has been good to me.
I can’t live my life worrying about something that might never happen.
You as an individual coach have a responsibility to try to give those players who put themselves at risk and in harm’s way a chance to achieve success, and that goes for universities and professional teams, as well.
I don’t think, I don’t intend to make people miserable. I am demanding.
So if the players trust the coach, it’s not a problem. If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
