black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.

Bill Parcells

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.
BILL PARCELLS

Enough Player Potential Team Want
Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
BILL PARCELLS

Baby Effectiveness Pain
Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
BILL PARCELLS

Judgment Motivational Sports
All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn’t any hole to run through.
BILL PARCELLS

Games Holes Running
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.
BILL PARCELLS

Game Motivational Sports Sunday Think
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 Together Trying
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
BILL PARCELLS

Dwell Media Negativity
Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked
BILL PARCELLS

Giving Merited Overlooked Player Roles
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

Better Gratification Happened Quarterly Reports
I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.
BILL PARCELLS

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

Adversity Basketball Team
The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
BILL PARCELLS

Beforehand Count Creative Relaxed
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
BILL PARCELLS

Closest Creatures Habitually Proximity
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
BILL PARCELLS

Coaching Player Sports
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
BILL PARCELLS

Player Problem Vices
If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
BILL PARCELLS

Game Inspiring Football Thinking

If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Parcells Quotes