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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.

Bill Belichick

The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Versatile Wells
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
BILL BELICHICK

Foundation Shortcuts Team
All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there’s a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It’s a case-by-case basis. Each one’s different. There’s no set formulas.
BILL BELICHICK

Different Information Quality
Whatever success I’ve had it is because I’ve tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach’s duty is to avoid complicating matters.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Player Thinking
If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you’re going to come up short next time
BILL BELICHICK

Feel Feelings Good Past
That 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.
BILL BELICHICK

Philosophy Player Practice
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.
BILL BELICHICK

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

College Player School
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Complain Complaining Ourselves Worse
You get the job done or you don’t.
BILL BELICHICK

Action Done Jobs
To live in the past is to die in the present.
BILL BELICHICK

Dies Live Past Present
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Coach End Football Jobs
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Details Football Information
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Comfort Determination Thinking
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Decision Football Team
I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
BILL BELICHICK

Team Trying Want

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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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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