“I think a smart guy can learn. Some guys learn – it’s just like all of us – some guys can learn electronics, some of us can’t.”

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

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.

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.

I’m not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process.

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.

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 was out of the country for a period of time but followed everything closely through other people in our organization and we’ve made the decisions that we felt were right for the football team and we’ll continue to do that and be as diligent as we can going forward.

I obviously understand that each team has the opportunity to prepare the balls the way they want, give them to the officials and the game officials either approve or disapprove the balls. That really was the end of it for me until I learned a little bit more about this .

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.

When you get wet, it usually means something good.

I think everyone is a case-by-case basis. Whatever the circumstances are that come with any individual, they exist and you have to make a determination as to what your comfort level is with that person and the characteristics that they bring.

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.

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.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

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

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.

Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.

Smoking’s a way to let you down slowly from a ballgame. It also makes you use less of the resources around. It makes people better in the way they act towards society. Everybody’s nicer. It’s hard to be mean when you’re stoned.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.

B2B does not mean boring marketing.

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man’s conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.