Bill Parcells Quotes - Page 2

If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy

I'm not really in the excuse business.

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.

Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

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.

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.

Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

Never let the world define you as less than Great.

There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

There is winning and there is misery.

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.

I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.

I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

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.

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

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.

I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker.

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.