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.
Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.
I see a little progress, ... So as long as I keep seeing that, then I'm willing to give him everything I've got.
If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
I have a house in Saratoga Springs.
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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.
Well, 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've used them for many, many years.
I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.
You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.
Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked
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.