I’m sure that any current or past player of mine would tell you that the balls we practice with are as bad as they can be: wet, sticky, cold, slippery.
BILL BELICHICKWe’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.
More Bill Belichick Quotes
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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 don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
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When you get wet, it usually means something good.
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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.
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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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There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
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This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
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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.
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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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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.
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I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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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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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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Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
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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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