Bill Parcells
Bill Parcells
Duane Charles "Bill" Parcells is a former American football head coach, both in college with the Air Force Falcons, and the National Football League with the New York Giants, New England Patriots, New York Jets, and Dallas Cowboys and is currently a "Courtesy Consultant" for the Cleveland Browns. He is known as "The Big Tuna", a nickname about the shape of his physique derived from a team joke during his tenure as linebackers coach of the New England Patriots...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth22 August 1941
CityEnglewood, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
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.
The fans, with all due respect, they don't affect the decisions I would make as a coach.
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.
When I was a young coach, there were people like Chuck Noll, Chuck Knox and Tom Landry who were there for me.
I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
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.
God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.
If you've ever won a championship, then that's all you're interested in doing.
We were just wishing. Now, knock on wood, it looks like we have a pretty good player and that's just a big, big plus. ... It looks like it could turn out like we hoped it would.
We played 56 minutes and 51 seconds worth of pretty bad football.
We've been working diligently to try and improve our third and second down throwing to our backs,
We've got a lot of work to do,
They are running for 166 yards a game, and have a balance that we haven't seen yet. They have a very good offensive line, a very good runner and a good, experienced quarterback. They are going to give us a lot of trouble and this is, balance-wise, the best offense we've played.
After his first year, there were a lot people (doubting him). But he fought them off. He did a pretty good job.