Bill Parcells Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Worry

• There is winning and there is misery.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Winning, Nfl

• You can only really yell at the players you trust.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Player, Coaching

• 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

  Sports, Winning, Games

• 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

  Basketball, Sports, Different

• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Team

• Success is never final, but failure can be.

  Bill Parcells

  Positive, Success, Sports

  Bill Parcells, Nunyo Demasio (2014). “Parcells: A Football Life”, p.23, Crown Archetype

• This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Doubt

• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Team

• We're not playing solitaire out here.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports

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

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Worry

• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Trying

• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Jobs

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

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Judgment

• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Here And There

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

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Needs

• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Sunday

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

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Two Sides

• My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Average, Expectations

• 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

  Sports, Thinking, Views

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

  Bill Parcells

  Soccer, Sports, Football

• Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Hands, Guy

• 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

  Sports, Player, Guy

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