Bill Belichick Quotes

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.
BILL BELICHICK

Different Numbers Player
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Games Knowing
We’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 BELICHICK

Continue Hard Jobs Littles Work
The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Versatile Wells
I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
BILL BELICHICK

Face Twitter Yearbook
Well this week’s all about Seattle, so we’ve been doing our best to prepare for the Seahawks. I’m doing that, our team’s doing that and we’ll be ready to go Sunday. That’s our focus.
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Best Prepare Sunday Team
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
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
BILL BELICHICK

Foundation Shortcuts Team
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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Course Down Happen Important Quarterback Slow Thing
My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
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Day Football Games Limited
The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
BILL BELICHICK

Anthem Cheer Philadelphia
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Done Information Trying
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
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.
BILL BELICHICK

College History Personal 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’ll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.
BILL BELICHICK

Ongoing People 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.
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Complain Complaining Ourselves Worse
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 cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
BILL BELICHICK

Criminals Ongoing Player
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Talking Team Thinking
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Jobs Mirror Thinking
I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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Team Trying Want
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Player Thinking
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
This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
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Ends Long Subject
I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
BILL BELICHICK

Charge Mean Sports Thinking

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