Bill Parcells Quotes

• I’m not really in the excuse business.

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

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• I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.

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• The NFL has been good to me.

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• The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can’t worry about that.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• So if the players trust the coach, it’s not a problem. If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

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• Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

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• There’s a line, players usually don’t cross it and coaches usually don’t cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had ’em. I’m not proud of those.

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

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• There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

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• When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.

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• The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

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

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• 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.

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• You are what you are.

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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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• 1996 - Audrey Meadows
• 2012 - Ben Gazzara
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• 2006 - Al Lewis
• 1988 - Robert Duncan