I’m not really in the excuse business.
BILL PARCELLSIf 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.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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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.
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It’s a very easy thing to say, ‘Go get a backup quarterback.’ Now tell me where to get them. You just can’t dial them up.
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I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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Why would you live your life worrying about something that’s not going to happen?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I’m trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can’t worry about someone else’s house.
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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.
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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!
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I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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Never let the world define you as less than Great.
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Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.
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