There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
BILL BELICHICKI’m sure that any current or past player of mine would tell you that the balls we practice with are as bad as they can be: wet, sticky, cold, slippery.
More Bill Belichick Quotes
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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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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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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 had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I’ve learned a lot about that.
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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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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.
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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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I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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To live in the past is to die in the present.
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I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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When you get wet, it usually means something good.
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