Bill Parcells Quotes

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

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.

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

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

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

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

The fans, with all due respect, they don't affect the decisions I would make as a coach.

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

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

The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you'll be when it counts.

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 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.

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

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.

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

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.

Blame Nobody, Expect Nothing, Do Something

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

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

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.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

I'm a little superstitious.

We're not playing solitaire out here.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

When I was a young coach, there were people like Chuck Noll, Chuck Knox and Tom Landry who were there for me.

The NFL has been good to me.

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

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

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.

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

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

You are what your record says you are.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

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.

Potential means you haven't done anything yet.

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.

If you've ever won a championship, then that's all you're interested in doing.

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

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.

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 got more money than I can spend now.

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

Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You lose with potential. You win with performance.

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

I have a house in Saratoga Springs.

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.

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

Never let the world define you as less than Great.

I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.

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.

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

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.