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
We were just wishing. Now, knock on wood, it looks like we have a pretty good player and that's just a big, big plus. ... It looks like it could turn out like we hoped it would.
We've been working diligently to try and improve our third and second down throwing to our backs,
I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade, and they've been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products; I really do.
I love football; I enjoy it. That's why I've been in this game as many years as I have. I still like it. I get excited about it.
I don't think, I don't intend to make people miserable. I am demanding.
I have a lot of great friends in football. The game was great to me. And I've been able to do other things in television and enjoy that, meeting those people.
Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.
The fans, with all due respect, they don't affect the decisions I would make as a coach.
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.
When I was a young coach, there were people like Chuck Noll, Chuck Knox and Tom Landry who were there for me.
We've got a lot of work to do,
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.
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.
If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.