Bill Belichick Quotes

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.

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

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

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

For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.

To live in the past is to die in the present.

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

I don't Twitter, I don't MyFace, I don't Yearbook...

You get the job done or you don't.

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.

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.

The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.

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.

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.

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.

When you get wet, it usually means something good.

We're always trying to do a better job on that and that's what we'll continue to do.

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.

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.

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.

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. Some people can learn something else, some of us can't. I mean, we're all wired differently.

I'm not really worried about the other 31 teams.

The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.

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

I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.