70 Inspiring Bill Belichick Quotes from the Iconic Football Coach

Bill Belichick is the head coach of the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL).


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I’d rather be at the top of the list than the bottom, let’s put it that way. ~ Bill Belichick.

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Whatever success I’ve had it is because I’ve tried to understand the situation of the player. ~ Bill Belichick.

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As you know, I’m not on SnapFace and all that, so I don’t really get those. I’m really just worried about getting our team ready to go. ~ Bill Belichick.

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The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem. ~ Bill Belichick.

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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.

But your whole advantage offensively, is to know when the ball is being snapped. Defensively, that’s your one disadvantage. ~ Bill Belichick.

I think it’s relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. ~ Bill Belichick.

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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.

This won’t be good enough. It wasn’t good enough today. It won’t be good enough against anybody else, either. ~ Bill Belichick.

If there is something that’s your passion when you’re young, do it. Let everything else take care of itself. ~ Bill Belichick.

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

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.

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.

Do Your Job!” means being prepared, working hard, paying attention to the details and putting the team first. ~ Bill Belichick.

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I think that’s what competitors do: they compete, regardless of the score or situation. ~ Bill Belichick.

There’s no quarterback I’d rather have than Tom Brady. He’s the best. ~ Bill Belichick.

I’m a football coach. I’m not a doctor. ~ Bill Belichick.

What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that’s what we’re going to focus on. ~ Bill Belichick.

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. ~ Bill Belichick.

We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team. ~ Bill Belichick.

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

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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.

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.

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.

Understanding what not to do sometimes is just as important as what you can do. ~ Bill Belichick.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling. ~ Bill Belichick.

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I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do. ~ Bill Belichick.

You get the job done or you don’t. ~ Bill Belichick.

I think a number of things that were strengths then are strengths now; I just think they are stronger. ~ Bill Belichick.

Iconic Bill Belichick Quotes

The more you and the organization can help take care of personal situations, the smoother the ship runs on the football end. ~ Bill Belichick.

Ultimately, the team has to come first even though we all have individual goals and preferences. ~ Bill Belichick.

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.

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.

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I’m not afraid of these guys. It’s either [them] or me. We can’t run a team like this. ~ Bill Belichick.

Don’t out-dumb yourself now. ~ Bill Belichick.

Ultimate Bill Belichick Quotes

If you work hard and you’re coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve. ~ Bill Belichick.

You [have to] know what the opponents can do, what their strengths and weaknesses are … [and] what to do in every situation! ~ Bill Belichick.

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.

There are a lot of things that affect what happens on the field that occur off the field. ~ Bill Belichick.

We don’t talk about next year. We talk about today, and we talk about the next game. And that’s all we can really control. The rest of it will take care of itself. ~ Bill Belichick.

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.

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.

Legendary Bill Belichick Quotes

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

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

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.

I think it’s important for us, as a team, to know each other. Know our teammates and our coaches. To interact with them is more important than to be ‘liked’ by whoever on Chatrun. ~ Bill Belichick.

Every single player matters. Every single player can change the course of the game. ~ Bill Belichick.

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I’m not really worried about the other 31 teams. ~ Bill Belichick.

We prepare hard. We come to the game with 45 guys, and everyone needs to be ready to go. ~ Bill Belichick.

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.

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I’m tired of pretending I’m not a rock star from Mars. ~ Bill Belichick.

To live in the past is to die in the present. ~ Bill Belichick.

Things happen so quickly. We don’t have time for one person to tell everybody what to do. Everybody needs to know what to do in those situations. ~ Bill Belichick.

I have plenty of competition in football. I love competition, but I’m not looking to compete in something else. ~ Bill Belichick.

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

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.

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We’re not polishing fine china here. ~ Bill Belichick.

Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games – it’s all important. ~ Bill Belichick.

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Knowing you have a good backup long snapper allows you to sleep good at night. ~ Bill Belichick.

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.

We’ll worry about next week next week. ~ Bill Belichick.

When you get wet, it usually means something good. ~ Bill Belichick.

For a team to accomplish their goals, everybody’s gotta give up a little bit of their individuality. ~ Bill Belichick.

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.

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You know, that’s what good quarterbacks do, they make plays when things don’t go perfectly. ~ Bill Belichick.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It’s not to go out there and block or tackle. ~ Bill Belichick.

I think your team evolves every year. The more you know about it, the better you can coach it. ~ Bill Belichick.

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I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook. ~ Bill Belichick.

A lot of performance is based on confidence, knowing what you’re doing, and being familiar, and not thinking too much and trying to play at confident game speed. ~ Bill Belichick.


So these were the 70 top Bill Belichick quotes on leadership, teamwork , winning, football, coaching and success.

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