The more you and the organization can help take care of personal situations, the smoother the ship runs on the football end. 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 teamplayerfootball 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-goodfeelingspast Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling Bill Belichick nbabasketballcharacter Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you. Bill Belichick nbateambasketball For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality. Bill Belichick giving-upteamgoal There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. Bill Belichick shortcutsfoundationteam To live in the past is to die in the present. Bill Belichick diespast 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 doneactionjobs 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 playerdoetrying 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 playerpracticephilosophy 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 mirrorsjobsthinking 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-hardrunninggiving The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well. Bill Belichick wellsversatilefootball 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 playerfootballthinking When you get wet, it usually means something good. Bill Belichick wetmean 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 blockzerorunning We're always trying to do a better job on that and that's what we'll continue to do. Bill Belichick always-tryingtryingjobs 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 teamplayerfootball 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-worklittlesjobs
