Bill Belichick Quotes

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.

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.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

If you're versatile, there's no reason a coach can't have you in the game. That's what my dad's philosophy was, so from a young age, he taught me to be a guard first and a big second, though I don't think he had a crystal ball to be able to see what the NBA would become.

I went to Kentucky to be a better player.

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.

That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.

When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to help the team win.

Whenever a team has three weeks to prepare, and it's an excellent coach and coaching staff and great players, you've got to work on it all.

Us coaches love to have as many players available as possible.

As a player, you just pick up your kit, go out, and train or wait for the ref to blow the whistle.

That's been my challenge. Go out there and guard the best player and get it done on both ends. It's been working out pretty good for me. Just got to keep that thing going.

For a player, it is important to work and work well and improve every day in pre-season.

I have tried to convince the players that if we work on certain things in training, they will happen in games and we will score goals from them.

I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.

As a player you just concentrate on your game.

Two-footed players always get a lot more recognition, so I always practised as a kid with my right foot.

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

Coaching to me is the ultimate high, especially when you have a game plan and you see that game plan executed to perfection. To see those players take what you put in front of them in preparation and turn it into a masterpiece - it doesn't get any better than that.

Our philosophy doesn't change. We're always competing. But the ways to approach it and the ways to make that up and make it available to our players, there's no end to that. That's why the thought is that you're either competing or you're not, and that's why I'm learning and searching and trying to transfer information to our coaches and to our players.

I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do that, I think I could be one of the best players out there.

Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

I think that when young players really see their game rise next level, it's when practices are like competition and there's no separation there. Of course, there are adrenaline and the butterflies; you don't have that so much in practice. You want to fake yourself out and try to get them there because you want to be as close to that game mentality as you can when you step on that field every single day whether it's practice or in your backyard or down the street with your dad.