Top 90 Bill Parcells Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The time to worry is before you place the bet – not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

53. “No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

56. “I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.”

— Bill Parcells

57. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

58. “You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.”

— Bill Parcells

59. “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

60. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

61. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

62. “It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

65. “I’m not trying to keep anybody happy.”

— Bill Parcells

66. “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

67. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

69. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

70. “I have a house in Saratoga Springs.”

— Bill Parcells

71. “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!”

— Bill Parcells

72. “You ask yourself, ‘What do you want your legacy to be?’ I’m content at this point to say, ‘Those who follow me.’ Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I’ve got a pretty good group, so far.”

— Bill Parcells

73. “I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.”

— Bill Parcells

74. “We’re not playing solitaire out here.”

— Bill Parcells

75. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

76. “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

77. “Don’t worry about it. It’s just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

79. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

80. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

81. “Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.”

— Bill Parcells

82. “There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.”

— Bill Parcells

83. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

84. “I like linebackers. I collect ’em. You can’t have too many good ones.”

— Bill Parcells

85. “When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.”

— Bill Parcells

86. “Well, 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’ve used them for many, many years.”

— Bill Parcells

87. “I think he’s got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.”

— Bill Parcells

88. “I’m a little superstitious.”

— Bill Parcells

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

— Bill Parcells

90. “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.”

— Bill Parcells

91. “By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.”

— Bill Parcells