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. – Bill Parcells
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. – Bill Parcells
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. – Bill Parcells
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. – Bill Parcells
God’s been good to me, He really has. I don’t know why he picked me out… Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can’t be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that. – Bill Parcells
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. – Bill Parcells
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. – Bill Parcells
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. – Bill Parcells
I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark. – Bill Parcells
I don’t have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don’t feel like I have to. – Bill Parcells
