217 Quotes by Bill Parcells

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.

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

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.

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!

Potential means you haven't done anything yet.

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.

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

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

Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.