My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
BILL BELICHICKHowever 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.
More Bill Belichick Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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’ve learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under that specification limit.
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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.
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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 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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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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I’m not really worried about the other 31 teams.
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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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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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You get the job done or you don’t.
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I feel like I’ve had a strong relationship with Robert [Kraft] and his family since I was here in 1996 and I think it’s gotten stronger every year that I’ve been here with the Patriots.
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