Bill Parcells Team Quotations

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.

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.

I'm glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, ... It's just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I'm happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.

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.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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.

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

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.

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

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

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

Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.

That's unusual for that team not to hit the quarterback, ... They usually do that a lot. They didn't hit him once, so I was happy about that.