It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do. Bill Belichick More Quotes by Bill Belichick More Quotes From Bill Belichick There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together. Bill Belichick team player football 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-good feelings past Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling Bill Belichick nba basketball character Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you. Bill Belichick nba team basketball For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality. Bill Belichick giving-up team goal There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. Bill Belichick shortcuts foundation team To live in the past is to die in the present. Bill Belichick dies past I don't Twitter, I don't MyFace, I don't Yearbook... Bill Belichick yearbook You get the job done or you don't. Bill Belichick done action jobs You definitely go through a stage, most coaches do, where you see a good player and you get enamored, you really like what the player does, but then when you put him into your system, it's not quite the same player that he was in another system. He has some strengths, but you cant utilize all those strengths. If you try to utilize all his strengths, you end up weakening a lot of other players who are already in your system. Bill Belichick player doe trying My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them. Bill Belichick player practice philosophy 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 mirrors jobs thinking 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. Bill Belichick play-hard running giving The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well. Bill Belichick wells versatile football 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 player football thinking When you get wet, it usually means something good. Bill Belichick wet mean The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. 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. Bill Belichick block zero running We're always trying to do a better job on that and that's what we'll continue to do. Bill Belichick always-trying trying jobs In short, we accumulate all the information that we can accumulate, wherever that information comes from, and try to analyze it and make the best decision we can make for our football team on a case-by-case basis. It's the same for every single player; the process is the same. Bill Belichick team player football 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 hard-work littles jobs
