61 Bill Belichick Quotes From The Great Football Coach

Bill Belichick coaches the New England Patriots from the National Football League (NFL).

Bill Belichick is known for his outstanding tenure as a coach which is the longest tenure so far. He is also the first all-timer coach to gain 31 victories in the play-offs.

These Bill Belichick quotes include Bill Belichick leadership quotes, Bill Belichick quotes on teamwork, and Bill Belichick quotes 'just do your job'. The following Bill Belichick quotes also include quotes on coaching, toughness quotes, and team sayings.

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Best Bill Belichick Quotes

These quotes are some of the best words that have been spoken by the football coach. Keep reading.

1. "I don't Twitter, I don't MyFace, I don't Yearbook."

- Bill Belichick.

2. "There's no quarterback I'd rather have than Tom Brady. He's the best."

- Bill Belichick.

3. "We'll worry about next week next week."

- Bill Belichick.

4."I'm not afraid of these guys. It's either [them] or me. We can't run a team like this."

- Bill Belichick.

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

- Bill Belichick.

6. "You have to go with the person who you have the most confidence in, the most consistent. And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but I'm going down with that person."

- Bill Belichick.

7. "Don't out-dumb yourself now."

- Bill Belichick.

8. "We can always look back and second-guess things that were or weren't done, but I'd say really the most important thing for us is to look at future decisions and try to make the best ones that we can."

- Bill Belichick.

9. "If you like football, and you like to come in and work on football, then the New England Patriots is a great place to be. If you don't, if it's a job, if you'd rather be doing something else, honestly you'd be better off with another team."

- Bill Belichick.

10. "Mental toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you."

- Bill Belichick.

11. "There have been times when I've put too much responsibility on people. ... They might have been the most talented, or the people you hoped would do the right or best thing, and they didn't come through."

- Bill Belichick.

12. "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."

- Bill Belichick.

13. "This won't be good enough. It wasn't good enough today. It won't be good enough against anybody else, either."

- Bill Belichick.

14. "I think we always try to do what's best for the football team, and that's a combination of long-term and short-term."

- Bill Belichick.

15. "There are a lot of things that affect what happens on the field that occur off the field."

- Bill Belichick.

Bill Belichick Quotes About Leadership

A good coach leads his team to success. Here are a few such quotes to get started on leadership.

16. "If you work hard and you're coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve."

- Bill Belichick.

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

- Bill Belichick.

18. "You get the job done or you don't."

- Bill Belichick.

19. "You [have to] know what the opponents can do, what their strengths and weaknesses are ... [and] what to do in every situation!"

- Bill Belichick.

20. "When you get wet, it usually means something good."

- Bill Belichick.

21. "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.

22. "I'd rather be at the top of the list than the bottom, let's put it that way."

- Bill Belichick.

23. "What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on."

- Bill Belichick.

24. "Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling."

- Bill Belichick.

25. "There's no medals for trying. This isn't like eighth grade where everybody gets a trophy. We are in a professional sport, and it is competitive to win. That's what we do."

- Bill Belichick.

26. "...you just control your opportunity to compete, whether you've got the ball on their one-yard line or your one-yard line or the score is 30-0 one way or the other or it's the first game or the last time."

- Bill Belichick.

27. "It's not all about talent. It's about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve."

- Bill Belichick.

28. "I think that's what competitors do: they compete, regardless of the score or situation."

- Bill Belichick.

29. "There are certainly areas that you can improve in and develop more consistency (in)."

- Bill Belichick.

30. "You know, that's what good quarterbacks do, they make plays when things don't go perfectly."

- Bill Belichick.

31. "I don't think that the issue is talent. It's more from a consistency standpoint and being able to gain the experience, and do it competitively the right way every time."

- Bill Belichick.

Bill Belichick Quotes About Teamwork

There cannot be any team without proper coordination. Here is a list of quotes on teamwork for you.

32. "I think your team evolves every year. The more you know about it, the better you can coach it."

- Bill Belichick.

33. "I believe to have a championship team you want to have a championship team in every area, whether that's your starting quarterback, your strength coach, your medical staff, your area scouts, whatever it happens to be. We're trying to work at a championship level of performance in every one of those areas."

- Bill Belichick.

34. "Every single player matters. Every single player can change the course of the game."

- Bill Belichick.

35. "We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team."

- Bill Belichick.

36. "This is our best opportunity to pull everything together in terms of substitution, communication, execution, playing on the road, playing in a hostile environment, all of those kinds of things."

- Bill Belichick.

37. "I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing."

- Bill Belichick.

38. "I'd say just a quick reflection from me on the year would be, as I said yesterday, how much I respect and appreciate the team and the staff and the sacrifices that everyone has made so that we could even have a season, so that we could play football and play it competitively."

- Bill Belichick.

39. "On a 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.

40. "Knowing you have a good backup long snapper allows you to sleep good at night."

- Bill Belichick.

41. "The only sign we have in the locker room is from 'The Art Of War': Every battle is won before it is fought."

- Bill Belichick.

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

- Bill Belichick.

43. "We prepare hard. We come to the game with 45 guys, and everyone needs to be ready to go."

- Bill Belichick.

44. "I have plenty of competition in football. I love competition, but I'm not looking to compete in something else."

- Bill Belichick.

45. "I think practice preparation is always an indicator of game performance – not necessarily 100%, because there are still a lot of variables there, but it's still an indicator."

- Bill Belichick.

46. "For a team to accomplish their goals, everybody's gotta give up a little bit of their individuality."

- Bill Belichick.

Bill Belichick Quotes About Coaching

If you want to learn about coaching who better to take a cue from than one of the most iconic football coaches of all time? So get going on these amazing quotes.

47. "We're not polishing fine china here."

- Bill Belichick.

48. "Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player."

- Bill Belichick.

49. "The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem."

- Bill Belichick.

50. "We have absolutely done as much work as we can on finding out things like that and we'll try to get all the information that we can as that would apply to any current situation, which I can't talk about."

- Bill Belichick.

51. "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.

52. "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.

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

- Bill Belichick.

54. "I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters."

- Bill Belichick.

55. "Understanding what not to do sometimes is just as important as what you can do."

- Bill Belichick.

56. "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."

- Bill Belichick.

57. "But your whole advantage offensively, is to know when the ball is being snapped. Defensively, that's your one disadvantage."

- Bill Belichick.

58. "I think a number of things that were strengths then are strengths now; I just think they are stronger."

- Bill Belichick.

59. "I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor."

- Bill Belichick.

60. "[I'm] privileged to be able to coach him, and have him on our team, and we meet on a regular basis, a couple times a week and I really, I mean, I enjoy coaching him."

- Billy Belichick, about Tom Brady.

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

- Bill Belichick.

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