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
If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.
By and large, I've been healthy all my life.
Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.
I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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.
I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
I'm a little superstitious.
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
I got more money than I can spend now.
God's been good to me, He really has.