I feel like I’ve had a strong relationship with Robert [Kraft] and his family since I was here in 1996 and I think it’s gotten stronger every year that I’ve been here with the Patriots.
BILL BELICHICKNot all teams use the same tests and certainly those tests are far from being 100 percent as well. It’s part of the process.
More Bill Belichick Quotes
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Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
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The more things we do together, talk about together, work together on, the closer we become and the more we rely on each other. I feel like our relationship is very close and continues to grow closer every year as we grow older together.
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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.
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I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I’ve learned a lot about that.
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However bad we can make them, I make them. Any time that players complain about the quality of the footballs, I make them worse and that stops the complaining.
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I’ve learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under that specification limit.
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My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
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I’m not really worried about the other 31 teams.
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For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.
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This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
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Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
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We have absolutely done as much work as we can on finding out things like that and we’ll try to get all the information that we can as that would apply to any current situation, which I can’t talk about.
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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.
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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.
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