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.
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.
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.
A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.
If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.
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.
You are what your record says you are.
Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
Not at all. He was just throwing it indiscriminately then.
I don't do many endorsements. I'd rather get doused by Gatorade than bust my butt selling it.
Kick would be a term of endearment, really. It wouldn't be kick with the idea of hurting them, just kind of move them along a little faster. ... Some are happy to be here, you know?
I'm not satisfied with the position. I don't think we're solid yet.
It was a dumb thought process. The players bailed me out.