Bill Belichick Quotes: A Dive into the Wisdom of This Legendary Coach

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.

I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook.

Do your job.

We like to say that dependability is more important than ability.

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

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

I’m a football coach. I’m not a doctor… They don’t call plays, I don’t do surgeries.

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

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

It?s not all about talent. It?s about dependability, consistency, being coachable, and understanding what you need to do to improve.

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

You can only work with the people who are here, and that?s enough to win.

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player.

The goal is not to change the system, but for the system to bring out the best in everyone.

Sometimes, less is more.

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.

We like to say that dependability is more important than ability.

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.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things you are doing to help the team win.

The only sign we have in the locker room is from The Art of War: ‘Every battle is won before it is fought.’

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.

I think a good player will look at every situation and look for the positive and negative in each one and decide how it can best help his team, and apply it accordingly.

You can’t have everybody on your team, so your number one commandment has to be to serve the team first.

You have to know what to do, how to do it, and you have to be able to physically do it. That?s true in every sport and it’s true in just about every profession.

The mentality of the team determines the altitude of its success.

You have to know what the opponents can do, what their strengths and weaknesses are… and what to do in every situation.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.

We try to approach every game the same way, regardless of whether it?s a preseason game or the Super Bowl.

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.

The only sign we have in the locker room is from The Art of War: ‘Every battle is won before it is fought.’

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.

My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice.

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don?t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

It’s not all about talent. It’s about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.

I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t InstaChat.

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

Do your job.

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

If you sit back and spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you’re going to come up short next time.

You can only make the decisions based on the information you have at that time.

I?d rather have an ugly win than a pretty loss.

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, it was always personal.