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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

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

Good Mean Something Wet
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
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 not really worried about the other 31 teams.
BILL BELICHICK

Really Team Worried
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 BELICHICK

Football Past Player
I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
BILL BELICHICK

Face Twitter Yearbook
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 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 .
BILL BELICHICK

Games Opportunity Team
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
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
The more things we do together, talk about together, work together on, the closer we become and the more we rely on each other. I feel like our relationship is very close and continues to grow closer every year as we grow older together.
BILL BELICHICK

Continue Each Game Main Relationship Together
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
The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
BILL BELICHICK

Anthem Cheer Philadelphia
I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that’s really about it.
BILL BELICHICK

Change Football Levels Pressure
To live in the past is to die in the present.
BILL BELICHICK

Dies Live Past Present
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.
BILL BELICHICK

College History Personal School

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.

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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.

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