Bill Belichick
Bill Belichick
William Stephen Belichickis an American football coach, and the long-time head coach of the New England Patriots of the National Football League. Belichick has extensive authority over the Patriots' football operations, effectively making him the General Manager of the team as well. He was previously the head coach of the Cleveland Browns...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth16 April 1952
CityNashville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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
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
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.
There are changes every year. It's hard to tell how all of those will pan out. But there's a lot of work to do.
There are certainly areas that you can improve in and develop more consistency (in).
There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.
We've got good, balanced play from both of those ends as we have from our outside linebackers, Willie and Rosie, or even Mike earlier in the year. So I think being balanced on defense has helped us.
We've got a short week this week with New Orleans, ... It's a team we play in the regular season, so we'll try to put more attention in this game than a normal preseason game because it will come up in the regular season.
We've won a few games here the last five, six weeks and hopefully we can continue to play better.
We were trying to take a little bit of the edge off, give everybody a chance to relax. It's been a good hard week with a lot of concentration. We figured we'd lighten up a little here and be ready to go tomorrow.