Bill Belichick Quotes

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. But figuratively speaking, I'm really into growth, so when I look in the mirror, I see somebody who's just trying to get better everyday.

I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.

We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that.

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

I'm not good at watching myself.

To learn to know oneself, to judge oneself with truth and impartiality, must be the great objects of one's exertion; they are only attainable by constant and cool self-examination.

There is no country in the world where the process of self-criticism and self-correction is more active than in the United States.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

I think a lot about my own game.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

You review a game. You don't brush over anything you did well and look at anything you could improve. There's stuff to get better at, it's not hard to find.

I'm a person, when something's not going right, I'm looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

I always see what I did wrong, what I could do better.

You have to look back on everything that you've done and critique yourself and find the holes in your game that you can continue to get better.

You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.