Bill Parcells's Quotes

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.

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.

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.

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

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.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

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.

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.

I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.

There is winning and there is misery.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

By and large, I've been healthy all my life.

God's been good to me, He really has.

I am demanding.

I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

I got more money than I can spend now.

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

I have a house in Saratoga Springs.

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.