“We do the same thing with all our players. We take a look, as I said, at their personal family life, we look at the history of what they’ve done in high school and college.”

I think a smart guy can learn. Some guys learn – it’s just like all of us – some guys can learn electronics, some of us can’t.

Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we’ll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team.

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.

For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.

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.

To live in the past is to die in the present.

Some guys, football comes really easy to them; they can see what all 22 players are doing, can see what all 11 guys are doing on their side of the ball, how it all fits together. It’s easy for them.

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.

I’m not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

When you get wet, it usually means something good.

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.