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There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

Bill Belichick

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.
BILL BELICHICK

Easy Football Good Guy Player
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Strong Thinking Years
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
BILL BELICHICK

Foundation Shortcuts Team
This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
BILL BELICHICK

Ends Long Subject
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Process Team Tests Use
I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
BILL BELICHICK

Face Twitter Yearbook
I’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.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Past Player
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.
BILL BELICHICK

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

Change Football Levels Pressure
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 .
BILL BELICHICK

Games Opportunity Team
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Philosophy Player Practice
I’ll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.
BILL BELICHICK

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

College Player School
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
BILL BELICHICK

Feel Feelings Good Past
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Game Incomplete Something Touched
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Comfort Determination Thinking

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

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