Bill Belichick Quotes

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing.

My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.

I definitely believe our coaches are now leading more and learning more. They are hungry in terms of getting the athletes to improve. I believe it's now more mental than anything else, and I'd like to assist in that area.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

Every season I think it's right every great team tries to improve the quality of the team.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

As a coach, when it comes to football players, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

Mike Brown wanted to hire me to work with LeBron in player development.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

It wasn't until I started my coaching badges that I found that I enjoyed it.

You cannot achieve your goal just with young players. We have to see them growing in a stable, mature squad.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.

It was tough coaching Australia. They were so set in their ways because they have been the right ways - but the culture needed changing because the discipline was shoddy.

Every coach will have good and bad.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

All the projects that coaches go through in the offseason are based on the success other teams had in every area whether it's offense, defense or special teams. What they do is see if they can incorporate anything they see with the people they have.