Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Belichick

I've learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under that specification limit. Knowing that now, in the future we will certainly inflate the footballs above that low level to account for any possible change during the game.

Bill Belichick

I was out of the country for a period of time but followed everything closely through other people in our organization and we've made the decisions that we felt were right for the football team and we'll continue to do that and be as diligent as we can going forward.

Bill Belichick

We've been cooperative with the NFL investigation. We'll continue to do so and we will turn all our attention and focus on to the Seattle Seahawks, a very well coached, talented, tough, competitive football team.

Bill Belichick

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

Bill Belichick

Some guys, football comes really easy to them; they can see what all 22 players are doing, can see what all 11 guys are doing on their side of the ball, how it all fits together. It's easy for them.

Bill Belichick

We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that's the way it is.

Bill Belichick

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.

Bill Belichick

I think we all know that quarterbacks, kickers, specialists have certain preferences on footballs. They know a lot more about it than I do. They're a lot more sensitive to it than I am.

Bill Belichick

Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we'll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team.

Bill Belichick

Some guys are football smart and they're not smart in other ways. Other guys get 1500 on their SATs and can't get a double-team block right. No, that definitely, in my experience, sometimes it correlates, sometimes it doesn't. I don't think you just take it for granted.

Bill Belichick

I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that's really about it.

Bill Belichick

I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air pressure. That is not a subject that I have ever brought up.

Bill Belichick

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

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 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

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

Bill Belichick

My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited. I would say that during the course of the game, I honestly never - it probably has happened on an incomplete pass or something - but I've never touched a game ball. It's not something I have any familiarity with on that.

Bill Belichick

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

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.

Bob Lilly

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

Bob Lilly

I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.

Bob Lilly

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

Bob Lilly

I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.

Bob Marley

Football is Freedom, a whole universe.

Bob Marley

Football is part of I, When I play the world wakes up around me

Bob Marley

Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.

Mike Nolan

We don't have any excuses, ... We played a very good football team and we did not play very well. That was obvious.

We've always had expectations that we were going to be a great football team. And I think we're on our way.

Al Michaels

When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain.

We're making a lot more tackles than we should have to, but if we get put in that situation, then we just have to make them. That's how it is: If we're put in that situation we have to make them.

Bill Griffith

We're going to throw the football. We're hoping our team speed helps us get past those 300-pounders.

Bill Griffith

We're going to throw the football, ... We're hoping our team speed helps us get past those 300-pounders.

Dick Vermeil

We're going to miss him. He's more than a football player for this organization.