Bill Parcells Quotes

I'm not really in the excuse business.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

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 not trying to keep anybody happy.

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.

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

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

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

I got more money than I can spend now.

I'm a little superstitious.

We're not playing solitaire out here.

When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.

I have a house in Saratoga Springs.

I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.

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

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

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

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.

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.