Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
BILL BELICHICKMental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
BILL BELICHICKI’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.
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.
BILL BELICHICKWe’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 BELICHICKWhen you get wet, it usually means something good.
BILL BELICHICKThis is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
BILL BELICHICKI’m not really worried about the other 31 teams.
BILL BELICHICKI 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.
BILL BELICHICKSo 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 BELICHICKI 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.
BILL BELICHICKI don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
BILL BELICHICKTo live in the past is to die in the present.
BILL BELICHICKTalent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
BILL BELICHICKNot all teams use the same tests and certainly those tests are far from being 100 percent as well. It’s part of the process.
BILL BELICHICKI told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that’s really about it.
BILL BELICHICKI 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