Bill Belichick

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It's not all about talent. It's about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you're coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.
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I can honestly say that I never 'enjoyed' our meetings, but the respect I have for Peyton Manning as a competitor was, and will likely remain, second to none.
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I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located - Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. It took two days.
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Every single player matters. Every single player can change the course of the game.
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What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on.
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There's no medals for trying. This isn't like eighth grade where everybody gets a trophy. We are in a professional sport, and it is competitive to win. That's what we do.
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Ultimately, the team has to come first even though we all have individual goals and preferences.
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A lot of performance is based on confidence, knowing what you're doing, and being familiar, and not thinking too much and trying to play at confident game speed.
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If there is something that's your passion when you're young, do it. Let everything else take care of itself.
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We don't talk about next year. We talk about today, and we talk about the next game. And that's all we can really control. The rest of it will take care of itself.
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As you know, I'm not on SnapFace and all that, so I don't really get those. I'm really just worried about getting our team ready to go.
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Bavaro's probably as tough of a - physically and mentally as tough a football player as I've ever coached. So, I would put him in the rare category there.
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If you're well-prepared, you know what you're doing, and you have an idea what the opponents can do - what their strengths and weaknesses are - once you get into the game, those adjustments will be - I won't say easy, but relatively easier and more manageable.
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I think your team evolves every year. The more you know about it, the better you can coach it.
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I like what I am doing. I enjoy all parts of the game - the team building, training camp, game days, the excitement of Sunday... it beats working.
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You have to go with the person who you have the most confidence in, the most consistent. And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but I'm going down with that person.
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My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.
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Things happen so quickly. We don't have time for one person to tell everybody what to do. Everybody needs to know what to do in those situations.
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You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system.
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To me, if you see a play that's just a bad play, it's just a missed call, I think, as a coach, you should be able to challenge that.
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I think it's important for us, as a team, to know each other. Know our teammates and our coaches. To interact with them is more important than to be 'liked' by whoever on Chatrun.
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The more you and the organization can help take care of personal situations, the smoother the ship runs on the football end.
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I love Annapolis. This is home.
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Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important.
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I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.
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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.
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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
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Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
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Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.
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For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.
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To live in the past is to die in the present.
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There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
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I don't Twitter, I don't MyFace, I don't Yearbook...
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You get the job done or you don't.
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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.
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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.
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The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you get wet, it usually means something good.
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We're always trying to do a better job on that and that's what we'll continue to do.
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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.
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Collection: Football
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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.
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Collection: Football
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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.
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I'm not really worried about the other 31 teams.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers...I mean Chargers.
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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.
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