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
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.
If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
By and large, I've been healthy all my life.
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.
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.
It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.
I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.
I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
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.
Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.
Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?
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.
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.