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
Bill Parcells quotes about
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.
Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.
Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.
If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
I'm a little superstitious.
God's been good to me, He really has.
When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
By and large, I've been healthy all my life.
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.