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 time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.
You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.
You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.
It's better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway.
Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked
There is winning and there is misery.
In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.
I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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.
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.
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.