Bill Parcells Quotes - Page 3

The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.

I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

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 grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

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.

You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.

The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He's handing it out here and there, but he can't just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.

I see a little progress, ... So as long as I keep seeing that, then I'm willing to give him everything I've got.

It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.

Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

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 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 like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.

Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

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.