Bill Belichick Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Bill Belichick

I'm tired of pretending I'm not a rock star from Mars. — Bill Belichick

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. — 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

Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important. — Bill Belichick

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

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. They have a great running back - they have a great group of running backs - but Lynch obviously is really kind of in a class by himself. The quarterback's a problem, the receivers are a problem, they have a good offensive line. — Bill Belichick

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. — Bill Belichick

This is the end of this subject for me for a long time. — Bill Belichick

You get the job done or you don't. — Bill Belichick

To live in the past is to die in the present. — Bill Belichick

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

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

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

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

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

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling — Bill Belichick

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. — Bill Belichick

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

For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody's got to give up a little bit of their individuality. — Bill Belichick

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. — Bill Belichick

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

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. — Bill Belichick

When you get wet, it usually means something good. — Bill Belichick

I don't Twitter, I don't MyFace, I don't Yearbook, — Bill Belichick

It hasn't even been competitive. That's the first thing we're going to have to do is just find a way to stay competitive because these (first two games) have been over by halftime. We saw that last year too (on Halloween). It was 21-3 (Steelers) at the end of the first quarter. — Bill Belichick

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. — Bill Belichick

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

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

We're not polishing fine china here. — Bill Belichick

Jean ValJean. I hated that fucker. — Bill Belichick