Bill Parcells Quotes

When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'

You always - as a basketball player, as a competitor - that's where you speak most: on the court.

Where the opponent is in the rankings means nothing.

There's always going to be pressure on your place. It's 11 cricketers. There's always going to be other cricketers outside the team doing well.

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

I'm competing against men who are doing five quads between the short program and the long program, and I'm at three between the two programs. Who would ever imagine that three wasn't enough for some people?

When I'm playing in a close game, I'm out on the floor only trying to help the team win.

In big clubs, you always have competitions for places.

It's tricky because obviously when you join a new club, from the very first day, everyone looks at you and tries to see if you are good enough. That's more or less what you have to go through. Then the other thing is that when I signed for West Ham nobody told me I was going to be number one.

As a player, you want to win everything.

We all know that the NFL is the best of the best, and there's great competition across the board, so any time you're hurt or something like that, and another guy gets his opportunity, he's going to try to make the most of it.

If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.

Guys that are playing in the preseason are one play away from being a starter.

Being favorite counts for nothing. I am focusing on doing the best time of my life, whether or not it's the best in history or the best in the competition.

I used to go out there and think I've got to do this to help better the sport - I've got to go out there and run top five and try to win a race. Now I just go out there and do my best, and hopefully it settles it.

The job is always with you, 24/7. I played over 400 games as a player and the highs aren't as high when you win and when you're a player the low isn't as low when you get beaten. It really spikes and dips as a manager.

You have to prove yourself year in and year out, and if you can't get the job done, every team is going to go and try and find somebody else that can.