Bill Belichick Quotes

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

If a team prepares well, a good team becomes even better.

When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

I say to my friends, 'Don't just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.' And this is the important thing.

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.

From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people.

Technology has had more of an impact on the presidency and how the presidency communicates than anything.

Wikis and social networking are just tools.

It is hard to get things done if you spend all of your time with the choir as opposed to the rest of the congregation.

I try to be as good a director as I possibly can. I try to be prepared, and I hope everyone else is. The preparation, I suppose, means just about everything. Little things mean a lot.

The more prepared I am, the calmer I will be.

I have to learn the plays before I can worry about getting passes thrown to me.

It's terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.

At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.

During the game, you don't really notice how many guys have touched the ball because you're just focusing on where you need to be.

You work to make sure that, in the game, everybody knows where they're supposed to be at, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But if you put them in a position to be successful, that's all you can ask for.

I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most important thing. After that, you can create tactics, but we have to create something special with ourselves.

One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.