Latest Bill Belichick Quotes from Interviews

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• The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.

  Bill Belichick

  Running, Zero, Block

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

• I think a good quarterback or a good linebacker, a good safety, even though you have a lot of bodies moving out there, it slows down for them and they can really see it. Then there are other guys that it's a lot of guys moving and they don't see anything. It's like being at a busy intersection, just cars going everywhere. The guys that can really sort it out, they see the game at a slower pace and can really sort out and decipher all that movement, which is hard. But experience certainly helps that, yes.

  Bill Belichick

  Moving, Thinking, Games

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

• 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

  Football, Doctors, Play

  Source: www.sbnation.com

• I've learned a lot about the process. I had no idea how the balls got from the officials locker room down on the field and so forth and so on and all of that. That's not something I have ever thought or concerned myself about [on] game day. I've concerned myself with preparing and coaching the team.

  Bill Belichick

  Team, Ideas, Games

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• 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

  Football, Levels, Pressure

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• 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

  Football, Team, Nfl

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• 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

  Football, Games, Game Day

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• 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

  Football, Games, Knowing

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• 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

  Football, Player, Air

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• To me the footballs are approved by the league and game officials pregame and we play with what's out there. That's the only way that I have ever thought about that.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Games, Play

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• Tom's [Brady] personal preferences on his footballs are something he can take about in much better detail and information than I could possibly provide.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Details, Information

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• 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

  Football, Thinking, Kickers

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• I'm trying to coach the team and that's what I want to do.

  Bill Belichick

  Team, Trying, Want

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• That has never been a priority for me and I want the players to deal with a harder situation in practice than they'll ever have to deal with in the game. Maybe that's part of our ball security philosophy.

  Bill Belichick

  Philosophy, Player, Practice

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• I'm sure that any current or past player of mine would tell you that the balls we practice with are as bad as they can be: wet, sticky, cold, slippery. However bad we can make them, I make them. Any time that players complain about the quality of the footballs, I make them worse and that stops the complaining.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Past, Player

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• 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

  Football, Play, Use

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

  Bill Belichick

  Games, Balls, Steps

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• I obviously understand that each team has the opportunity to prepare the balls the way they want, give them to the officials and the game officials either approve or disapprove the balls. That really was the end of it for me until I learned a little bit more about this .

  Bill Belichick

  Team, Opportunity, Games

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

• 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

  Football, Player, Guy

  "What Bill Belichick Said About Drafting Jordan Richards, Geneo Grissom". boston.cbslocal.com. May 2, 2015.

• 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.

  Bill Belichick

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

  "What Bill Belichick Said About Drafting Jordan Richards, Geneo Grissom". boston.cbslocal.com. May 2, 2015.

• 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

  Football, Block, Smart

  "What Bill Belichick Said About Drafting Jordan Richards, Geneo Grissom". boston.cbslocal.com. May 2, 2015.

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

  Bill Belichick

  Jobs, Always Trying, Trying

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I feel like I've had a strong relationship with Robert [Kraft] and his family since I was here in 1996 and I think it's gotten stronger every year that I've been here with the Patriots. The more things we do together, talk about together, work together on, the closer we become and the more we rely on each other. I feel like our relationship is very close and continues to grow closer every year as we grow older together.

  Bill Belichick

  Strong, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• 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

  Football, Jobs, Team

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there's a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It's a case-by-case basis. Each one's different. There's no set formulas.

  Bill Belichick

  Quality, Different, Information

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com