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
My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
We're not playing solitaire out here.
This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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.
I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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.
Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.
I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.
No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.
I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.
All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.
Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.