Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
BILL BELICHICKThat has never been a priority for me and I want the players to deal with a harder situation in practice than they’ll ever have to deal with in the game. Maybe that’s part of our ball security philosophy.
More Bill Belichick Quotes
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I’m not really worried about the other 31 teams.
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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.
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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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I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
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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.
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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.
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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 going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process.
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As part of the process, there are a lot of different ways to evaluate players. There are a number of different companies and things out there that do different things; that have different ways of evaluating and those types of tests and so forth.
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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.
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I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that’s really about it.
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I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
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I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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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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Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
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