Bill Belichick Quotes

If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

To live in the past is to die in the present.

I don't Twitter, I don't MyFace, I don't Yearbook...

You get the job done or you don't.

My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.

The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.

You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.

When you get wet, it usually means something good.

Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters.

We're always trying to do a better job on that and that's what we'll continue to do.

I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers...I mean Chargers.

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.

I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.

We'll continue to work hard to do a better job in every area going forward. I don't know where those little things will come from but we'll continue to be diligent on them.

I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.

I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.

I'm not really worried about the other 31 teams.

We're not polishing fine china here.

This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.

The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.

Well this week's all about Seattle, so we've been doing our best to prepare for the Seahawks. I'm doing that, our team's doing that and we'll be ready to go Sunday. That's our focus.

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that's really about it.

I'm trying to coach the team and that's what I want to do.

Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we'll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team.

I think we all know that quarterbacks, kickers, specialists have certain preferences on footballs. They know a lot more about it than I do. They're a lot more sensitive to it than I am.

Some guys, football comes really easy to them; they can see what all 22 players are doing, can see what all 11 guys are doing on their side of the ball, how it all fits together. It's easy for them.

Not all teams use the same tests and certainly those tests are far from being 100 percent as well. It's part of the process.

I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle.

We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that's the way it is.

I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air pressure. That is not a subject that I have ever brought up.

To me the footballs are approved by the league and game officials pregame and we play with what's out there. That's the only way that I have ever thought about that.

Tom's [Brady] personal preferences on his footballs are something he can take about in much better detail and information than I could possibly provide.