Bill Belichick Quotes

To live in the past is to die in the present.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

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.

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

We're not polishing fine china here.

I don't Twitter, I don't MyFace, I don't Yearbook,

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Jean ValJean. I hated that fucker.

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.

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.

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

You get the job done or you don't.