Bill Parcells Quotes

• Success is never final, but failure can be.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Failure, Success

• 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.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Thinking

• There is winning and there is misery.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Winning, Misery

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

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Collect

• 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.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Know

• Don’t worry about it. It’s just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry

• 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.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Matter

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

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Demanded

• Something goes wrong, I yell at them -“Fix it”- whether it’s their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fix, Wrong

• Don’t worry about it. It’s just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry

• By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Life

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Examples

• I am demanding.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Demanding

• I got more money than I can spend now.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Money

• I have a house in Saratoga Springs.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in House

• If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Fun

• I just try to do the best job I possibly can – put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can – you’ve put forth your greatest effort – then I can live with whatever’s next.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Try

• I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• I’m not really in the excuse business.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Business

• 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.

  Bill Parcells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

Bill Parcells (40)

Birth:	22nd August, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Coach

About

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.

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• 1952 - Lorna Luft
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• 1959 - Max Baer
• 1945 - Robert Benchley
• 1958 - Mel Ott
• 1999 - Quentin Crisp