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.
BILL BELICHICKI’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.
More Bill Belichick Quotes
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I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
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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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There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
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To live in the past is to die in the present.
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We do the same thing with all our players. We take a look, as I said, at their personal family life, we look at the history of what they’ve done in high school and college.
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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 .
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This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
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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’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 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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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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The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
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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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For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.
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