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Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

Bill Belichick

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

Foundation Shortcuts Team
I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
BILL BELICHICK

Face Twitter Yearbook
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Process Team Tests Use
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Different Numbers Player
To live in the past is to die in the present.
BILL BELICHICK

Dies Live Past Present
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Games Knowing
When you get wet, it usually means something good.
BILL BELICHICK

Good Mean Something Wet
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
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 BELICHICK

Country Football Organisation Team
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Best Prepare Sunday Team
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
Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
BILL BELICHICK

Basketball Mental Team Toughness
I would say that during the course of the game, I honestly never – it probably has happened on an incomplete pass or something – but I’ve never touched a game ball. It’s not something I have any familiarity with on that.
BILL BELICHICK

Game Incomplete Something Touched
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
I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
BILL BELICHICK

Team Trying Want
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

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

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