Giants vs Patriots Superbowl, Quotes from Parcells

With Superbowl XLVI on later tonight, I thought it would be good to share some of my favourite quotes from Bill Parcells.

Parcells won 2 Superbowls as Head Coach of the New York Giants, then took the New England Patriots to another Superbowl (where they lost to the Packers).

• “I don’t have a fomula for success. I have one for failure- try and please everyone.”
• “If you don’t think luck means anything in life, you haven’t been paying attention.”
• On his version of the run and shoot offense “If my quarterback runs, I’ll shoot him.”
• “You’re not going to be madly in love with your general manager. Coach the team. You got problems, cry yourself to sleep.”
• “Coaching is giving your players a good design and getting ’em to play hard.”
• On Lawrence Taylor “All you had to do was show him where the competition was. I saw the man play when he was bleeding, when he was in severe pain with a shoulder injury, when he was dehydrated. When it came to laying it on the line, there was nobody better than Lawrence Taylor.”