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
Confidence is only born out of one thing demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.
The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning
A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.
Don't ever let good enough be good enough.
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.
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.
You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.
It's better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway.
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker,
I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.