Quotes About Bill Belichick

#1. You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.

Bill Parcells

#2. If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.

Randy Moss

#3. Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick.

Deion Sanders

#4. You get changed by the Bill Belichick way, you get changed by the Patriot Way,

Aaron Hernandez

#5. Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are the masters of finding something that you didn't suspect.

Deion Sanders

#6. Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day.

Randy Moss

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

Bill Belichick

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

Bill Belichick

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

Bill Belichick

#10. 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.

Bill Belichick

#11. 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

#12. When you get wet, it usually means something good.

Bill Belichick

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

Bill Belichick

#14. We're not polishing fine china here.

Bill Belichick

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

Bill Belichick

#16. 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.

Bill Belichick

#17. 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.

Bill Belichick

#18. 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.

Bill Belichick

#19. You get the job done or you don't.

Bill Belichick

#20. Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

Bill Belichick

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

Bill Belichick

#22. I don't Twitter, I don't MyFace, I don't Yearbook,

Bill Belichick

#23. 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.

Bill Belichick

#24. I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers ... I mean Chargers.

Bill Belichick

#25. 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.

Bill Belichick

#26. 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.

Bill Belichick

#27. 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

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

Bill Belichick

#29. The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.

Bill Belichick

#30. 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.

Bill Belichick

#31. 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.

Bill Belichick

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

Bill Belichick

#33. 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.

Bill Belichick

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

Bill Belichick

#35. Jean ValJean. I hated that fucker.

Bill Belichick

#36. 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