Bill Parcells quote: "I'm not a bus-station kind of guy, but there are a few players here I'm not sure want to be here. They've got a brook-trout kind of look."

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no ma...
BILL PARCELLS

I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you c...
BILL PARCELLS

When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you t...
BILL PARCELLS

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
BILL PARCELLS

You know if you can't cut, you can't run, ... It's no use.
BILL PARCELLS

I had seen him as a right guard when I was scouting him and that's what I thought he was, ... So I s...
BILL PARCELLS

We are facing the top offense in the league, ... They are running for 166 yards a game, and have a b...
BILL PARCELLS

It's very draining when you put in all that work and it comes down to losing the last game. You just...
BILL PARCELLS

I'm not overly proud of 9-7. I'm really not. It really wasn't a good performance. It was one of thos...
BILL PARCELLS

As of this moment I don't know exactly what we're going to do, ... I would say this is probable, it'...
BILL PARCELLS

I still want to use (Glover) and Ellis the way I told you this past spring and this summer, ... They...
BILL PARCELLS

I thought he did a good job fighting and competing. I never got a sense he wanted out of the game. I...
BILL PARCELLS

I am not too lavish with praise on players, as you know. Terry is a good player. He can catch the ba...
BILL PARCELLS

It lets him know what the NFL is like,
BILL PARCELLS

The media dwells mostly on negativity.
BILL PARCELLS

I was fine with Quincy. I just think that (signing Price) is a little bit better recourse.
BILL PARCELLS

I'd like to see a little more, ... We just haven't sprung him yet, but I think he's doing OK.
BILL PARCELLS

It's not just about Moss, ... They've got more than one vertical threat. They've got some other guys...
BILL PARCELLS

He got hit in the face with that skunk twice,
BILL PARCELLS

I don't do many endorsements. I'd rather get doused by Gatorade than bust my butt selling it.
BILL PARCELLS

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

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter...
BILL PARCELLS

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I ...
BILL PARCELLS

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you ...
BILL PARCELLS

How's the team looking this spring, Skip?
BILL PARCELLS

I'm disappointed to finish this way. We were a little deflated, maybe. We didn't do a good job. We j...
BILL PARCELLS

I got two high-strung players, you know? That's it.
BILL PARCELLS

I've got two high-strung players,
BILL PARCELLS

This is a mechanical job. You have to be able to execute the mechanics of this job. It's a zero-tole...
BILL PARCELLS

I'm energized, determined and I look forward to being part of the community here in Dallas. I know w...
BILL PARCELLS

I thought I did, but I'd be a fool not to listen. This is America, after all.
BILL PARCELLS

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
BILL PARCELLS

That's the best recourse we have. He knows the system.
BILL PARCELLS

The thing that's setting me back is the Spears-Ferguson thing. That's putting it a little on hold.
BILL PARCELLS

He's a thick-legged kid, ... Just imagine a porter with two bags. That's him when he's overweight.
BILL PARCELLS

We worked hard early in the season on getting rid of a couple of (technical issues), and he seemingl...
BILL PARCELLS

I see a little progress, ... So as long as I keep seeing that, then I'm willing to give him everythi...
BILL PARCELLS

He was one of my best friends. . . . Those are the people you can count on the fingers of one hand.
BILL PARCELLS

There will be changes here, there's no doubt about that.
BILL PARCELLS

This is one of the most competitive businesses there is . . . It's my life. It's my blood. It's how ...
BILL PARCELLS

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't k...
BILL PARCELLS

Success is never final, but failure can be.
BILL PARCELLS

He's done for the year. We are going to try to operate on it to fix whatever it is.
BILL PARCELLS

Are you kidding me? I wouldn't root for the Yankees if they were playing Poland.
BILL PARCELLS

We'll see if he can function. I wouldn't leave that up to him.
BILL PARCELLS

There is winning and there is misery.
BILL PARCELLS

That's a very unnoticed, unheralded job that is not simple,
BILL PARCELLS

Julius got a little winded there in the fourth quarter, ... I got him out for a series in the first ...
BILL PARCELLS

No, no, no, ... He's the potentially good Julius Jones.
BILL PARCELLS

I've always had the most problem with ... the ball in the air, helmet-to-helmet stuff. When the ball...
BILL PARCELLS

I just told [Drew] Bledsoe that hasn't happened until he got here. I don't know what piece of the pu...
BILL PARCELLS

That's not without some deliberation here, without question,
BILL PARCELLS

I'm not satisfied with the position, ... I don't think we're solid yet.
BILL PARCELLS

He was open, ... I think he could’ve caught the ball. If Terry caught that ball, I think he would�...
BILL PARCELLS

I think it's an accumulation of things at this point. I just think he's worn out. The first month he...
BILL PARCELLS

If Peerless can fill in and do as well as Patrick, then I'll be very happy.
BILL PARCELLS

It's just a misfortunate because I think he could've been where Thompson is, had he not got an infec...
BILL PARCELLS

You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say...
BILL PARCELLS

Kick would be a term of endearment, really. It wouldn't be kick with the idea of hurting them, just ...
BILL PARCELLS

I do think I would use him if I felt like the situation warranted whether it would be lopsided or no...
BILL PARCELLS

We had too many balls on the ground. [We'll] look at this guy for a couple of days, see what happens...
BILL PARCELLS

We've got a few moving parts. I wish it wasn't quite this many.
BILL PARCELLS

On offense, we were sloppy a little bit... couldn't take care of the ball, and had some penalties. Y...
BILL PARCELLS

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
BILL PARCELLS

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
BILL PARCELLS

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with ...
BILL PARCELLS

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can...
BILL PARCELLS

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
BILL PARCELLS

I learned that some of our inexperienced players were playing at one speed below what some of their ...
BILL PARCELLS

Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have ...
BILL PARCELLS

Not at all. He was just throwing it indiscriminately then.
BILL PARCELLS

There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every...
BILL PARCELLS

Nowhere near it. In fact, I don't think he should be east of the Mississippi yet.
BILL PARCELLS

When he's exactly sure what to do, he can do it. When he's uncertain, he gets tentative.
BILL PARCELLS

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want p...
BILL PARCELLS

Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?
BILL PARCELLS

If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.
BILL PARCELLS

I'm not really in the excuse business.
BILL PARCELLS

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
BILL PARCELLS

I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.
BILL PARCELLS

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.
BILL PARCELLS

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that...
BILL PARCELLS

If you've ever won a championship, then that's all you're interested in doing.
BILL PARCELLS

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circum...
BILL PARCELLS

I have a lot of great friends in football. The game was great to me. And I've been able to do ot...
BILL PARCELLS

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

You are what you are.
BILL PARCELLS

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno...
BILL MAHER

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri...
BILL MURRAY

President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a ...
BILL O'REILLY

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out ...
BILL VIOLA

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSON

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves an...
BILL WATTERSON

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's differ...
BILL WATTERSON

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
BILL COPELAND

Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
BILL RANCIC

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES

I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES

People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES

The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES

I'm a geek.
BILL GATES

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
BILL GATES

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
BILL GATES

Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo...
BILL GOLDBERG

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
BILL GATES

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and...
BILL GATES

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
BILL GATES

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
BILL GATES

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho...
BILL GATES

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o...
BILL GATES

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...
BILL GATES

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ...
BILL GATES

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to...
BILL GATES

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
BILL GATES

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is...
BILL PASCRELL

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or e...
BILL BRYSON

Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals ...
BILL FLORES

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
BILL COSBY

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSON

There's a lot of things I believe in this world. I believe in God, I believe in the United State...
BILL ENGVALL

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what&...
BILL COSBY

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them an...
BILL COSBY

I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not ...
BILL COSBY

There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.
BILL COSBY

When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
BILL COSBY

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what ...
BILL COSBY

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
BILL COSBY

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituari...
BILL COSBY

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of yo...
BILL COSBY

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
BILL COSBY

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: e...
BILL COSBY

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
BILL COSBY

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
BILL COSBY

If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. I...
BILL COSBY

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America d...
BILL COSBY

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
BILL COSBY

Anytime I get down to Miami, it's a wonderful thing.
BILL GOLDBERG

I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture ...
BILL ATKINSON

As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories f...
BILL GOLDBERG

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you'...
BILL HICKS

I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, b...
BILL BURR

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
BILL GATES

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
BILL COPELAND

I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave th...
BILL COSBY

A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.
BILL TOOMEY

I'm not a bus-station kind of guy, but there are a few players here I'm not sure want to be here. They've got a brook-trout kind of look.

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I'm not a bus-station kind of guy, but there are a few players here I'm not sure want to be here. They've got a brook-trout kind of look.

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