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
The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.
The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He's handing it out here and there, but he can't just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
Success is never final, but failure can be.
I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.
Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.
Part of buying the groceries is having a philosophy and trying to stick to it as best you can, knowing that occasionally you may make an exception. But, you do so knowing you're attempting to do it for a certain reason and you have to be very careful not to try to make too many exceptions, because then you wind up as a franchise with a team full of exceptions, which is not what you want.
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.
I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.
We're not playing solitaire out here.
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.
Anybody who watched football last year knows they're good. But that represents a very good opportunity for us. It really does. I think somehow, if we're able to pull that off, I think it will go a long way for our confidence. I look at it as a great opportunity, and hopefully we'll be at our best when we get there.
It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.
I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.