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
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.
I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.
I see a little progress, ... So as long as I keep seeing that, then I'm willing to give him everything I've got.
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.
It's a very easy thing to say, 'Go get a backup quarterback.' Now tell me where to get them. You just can't dial them up.
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.
All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.