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 BELICHICKWhatever 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.
More Bill Belichick Quotes
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Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
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I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
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Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
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I’m a football coach. I’m not a doctor … They don’t call plays, I don’t do surgeries. We have a great deal here.
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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’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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That 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.
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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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I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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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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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.
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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.
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All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there’s a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It’s a case-by-case basis. Each one’s different. There’s no set formulas.
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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.
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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.
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