Bill Parcells
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.
The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
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.
I have a lot of great friends in football. The game was great to me. And I've been able to do other things in television and enjoy that, meeting those people.
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 just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
I love football; I enjoy it. That's why I've been in this game as many years as I have. I still like it. I get excited about it.
When I was a young coach, there were people like Chuck Noll, Chuck Knox and Tom Landry who were there for me.
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.
Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.Collection: Team
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.Collection: Blame
You are what your record says you are.Collection: Records
If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.Collection: Want
Don't ever let good enough be good enough.Collection: Letting Go
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.Collection: Dream
The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.Collection: Creative
Potential means you haven't done anything yet.Collection: Mean
A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.Collection: Thinking
What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.Collection: Past
You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winningCollection: Basketball
Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.Collection: Hate
A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.Collection: Teacher
You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.Collection: Dream
The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.Collection: Hurt
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthyCollection: Basketball
It's better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway.Collection: Attitude
Never let the world define you as less than Great.Collection: World
A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apartCollection: Basketball
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.Collection: Circles
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.Collection: Motivational
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.Collection: Motivational
You lose with potential. You win with performance.Collection: Winning
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!Collection: Motivational
Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.Collection: Baby
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.Collection: Team
Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.Collection: Play
Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlookedCollection: Player
Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.Collection: Team
You can only really yell at the players you trust.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Sports
I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Easy
I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker.Collection: Eye
All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.Collection: Running
Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.Collection: Motivational
The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Team
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.Collection: Confidence
I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.Collection: Motivational