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
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.
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
Potential means you haven't done anything yet.
Part of buying the groceries is having a philosophy and trying to stick to it as best you can, knowing that occasionally you may make an exception. But, you do so knowing you're attempting to do it for a certain reason and you have to be very careful not to try to make too many exceptions, because then you wind up as a franchise with a team full of exceptions, which is not what you want.
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.