We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that’s the way it is.
BILL BELICHICKFor a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.
More Bill Belichick Quotes
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I think that we’ll continue to try to look at ourselves in the mirror and see where we can do a better job, maybe where we can improve the process. But I think the fundamentals of the process will remain the same.
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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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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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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
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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.
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You get the job done or you don’t.
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I think we all know that quarterbacks, kickers, specialists have certain preferences on footballs. They know a lot more about it than I do. They’re a lot more sensitive to it than I am.
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It’s the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.
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I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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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 only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
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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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Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
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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’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.
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