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Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.

Bill Belichick

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
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 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
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
I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
BILL BELICHICK

Face Twitter Yearbook
Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
BILL BELICHICK

Basketball Ceiling Character
We have absolutely done as much work as we can on finding out things like that and we’ll try to get all the information that we can as that would apply to any current situation, which I can’t talk about.
BILL BELICHICK

Done Information Trying
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Course Down Happen Important Quarterback Slow Thing
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
We’ll continue to work hard to do a better job in every area going forward. I don’t know where those little things will come from but we’ll continue to be diligent on them.
BILL BELICHICK

Continue Hard Jobs Littles Work
I think it’s relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that’s not what we’re talking about here with Seattle.
BILL BELICHICK

Talking Team Thinking
The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
BILL BELICHICK

Anthem Cheer Philadelphia
To live in the past is to die in the present.
BILL BELICHICK

Dies Live Past Present
I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
BILL BELICHICK

Team Trying Want
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

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