“You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.”

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

I’ll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.

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.

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.

I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that’s really about it.

I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.

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.

I 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.

I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.

Whatever 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.

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.

This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.

I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.

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.

I’ve always been really hard on myself. If I didn’t book a job, I would cry.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Don’t be so hard on yourself; you’re going great.

The more successful you get, the harder it gets to stay at the top.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.

It’s hard to see things when you’re too close. Take a step back and look.

Champions don’t give up when things get hard; they keep trying.