Best 82 quotes of Bill Parcells on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.

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

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

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

If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.

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.

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

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

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.

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

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.

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

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.