Top 117 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Parcells - Page 2

You as an individual coach have a responsibility to try to give those players who put themselves at risk and in harm's way a chance to achieve success, and that goes for universities and professional teams, as well.

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.

A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart

The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.

Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

It's better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway.

Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

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.

Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.

I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

I see a little progress, ... So as long as I keep seeing that, then I'm willing to give him everything I've got.

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

It's a very easy thing to say, 'Go get a backup quarterback.' Now tell me where to get them. You just can't dial them up.

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.

What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

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.

It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.

You are what your record says you are.

We're not playing solitaire out here.

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

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.

This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.

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.

I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.

A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.

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.

I'm glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, ... It's just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I'm happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.

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.

Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

Never let the world define you as less than Great.

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

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.

The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.

You lose with potential. You win with performance.

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.

All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.

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.

I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.

My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.

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.

Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.

Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy

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.

Potential means you haven't done anything yet.

Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked