IRVING, Texas (AP)
-- Bill Parcells says he's finished talking about Terrell Owens -- until the Dallas Cowboys get to training camp in July.
"I answered 35 questions on him the other day," Parcells said Sunday. "That will be the last on him until we get on the field at practice in training camp. You won't hear anything else from me on that subject. Go to the tape."
It's not a short tape.
Parcells spent the first half of a 50-minute media session at the start of a rookie minicamp Friday answering questions strictly about Owens. That was the coach's first news conference since after the Cowboys' last game New Year's Day, and first public comments since the receiver signed March 18.
When the minicamp camp ended Sunday, Parcells wasn't in the mood to answer any more.
The Cowboys report to training camp in Oxnard, Calif., in late July.
Before then, Owens is expected to attend a minicamp for veterans June 2-4 at the Valley Ranch facility. When asked if he would talk about Owens then, Parcells indicated he wouldn't.
But the coach had also said he was only going to speak for 10 minutes Sunday. He went nearly twice that long, the question about Owens not coming until he was already getting up to leave.
Before then, Parcells said he felt recharged and energetic. And he discounted the idea that he was trying to convince himself of that.
"This is the time of year you need to feel like that. I got excited for the draft," Parcells said. "It's going to happen to you, you're not going to have the energy to do what you're supposed to do, and that's when you're going to hang it up. When that day comes, I'm hanging it up.
"I'm not in a position where I have to work for a living if I don't want to. So, fortunately, God was good to me in that regard."
Parcells has a 25-24 record in three years with the Cowboys, including a playoff loss his first season. Dallas dropped to 6-10 in 2004, then went 9-7 and missed the playoffs last season.
"This is probably the toughest job I have ever had," he said. "There's still a couple of things that concern me a great deal, but personnel-wise, I know we're getting closer to where we're going to be able to be competitive."
Parcells is 163-123-1 over an 18-year career, ninth on the career win list. He won two Super Bowls with the New York Giants, the last after the 1990 season.
The 64-year-old Parcells had a year left on his original four-year, $17 million contract with Dallas when he agreed on a new contract through the 2007 season. The new deal came in January, less than a week after the season ended.
"He's very disappointed and thought we had a chance to have a better year last year," owner Jerry Jones said Sunday. "There's a resolve. You don't have to worry about him. ... I think his battery is charged right now."
Notes: Parcells said he plans to take more than three quarterbacks to training camp in July, in part to make sure veteran starter Drew Bledsoe won't have to throw as many passes. Bledsoe, Drew Henson and Tony Romo were the only QBs in camp last summer. ... Henson strained his knee during an NFL Europe game over the weekend. Jones said it's a "day-to-day" injury, and nothing serious.