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 BELICHICKThat 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.
More Bill Belichick Quotes
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I’m not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process.
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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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For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.
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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 told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that’s really about it.
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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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The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
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I’ll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.
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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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There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
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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.
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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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When you get wet, it usually means something good.
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So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that’s happening, but just really zero in on a target.
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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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