Top 90 Bill Parcells Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.”

— Bill Parcells

2. “You are what your record says you are.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

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4. “Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.”

— Bill Parcells

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5. “Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.”

— Bill Parcells

6. “Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.”

— Bill Parcells

7. “You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.”

— Bill Parcells

8. “Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.”

— Bill Parcells

9. “You lose with potential. You win with performance.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

11. “I got more money than I can spend now.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

14. “Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

16. “You can easily separate ‘team guys’ from ‘me guys’ by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning.”

— Bill Parcells

17. “You can’t dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

19. “What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.”

— Bill Parcells

20. “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

21. “Success is never final, but failure can be.”

— Bill Parcells

22. “God’s been good to me, He really has.”

— Bill Parcells

23. “It’s a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It’s easier, but it’s not more comfortable.”

— Bill Parcells

24. “Never let the world define you as less than Great.”

— Bill Parcells

25. “I’m not really in the excuse business.”

— Bill Parcells

26. “I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.”

— Bill Parcells

27. “Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.”

— Bill Parcells

28. “I can’t live my life worrying about something that might never happen.”

— Bill Parcells

29. “The media dwells mostly on negativity.”

— Bill Parcells

30. “If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.”

— Bill Parcells

31. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

32. “If you’re sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

37. “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

38. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

39. “My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.”

— Bill Parcells

40. “Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

42. “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

43. “There is winning and there is misery.”

— Bill Parcells

44. “If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.”

— Bill Parcells

45. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

46. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

47. “You can only really yell at the players you trust.”

— Bill Parcells

48. “Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.”

— Bill Parcells

49. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

50. “I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.”

— Bill Parcells