Quotes from Bill Parcells

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.

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

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.

God's been good to me, He really has.

Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

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

The fans, with all due respect, they don't affect the decisions I would make as a coach.

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

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.

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.

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

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.

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.

I am demanding.

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.

Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.

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

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.

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

There is winning and there is misery.

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.

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

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

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