Bill Belichick Quotes

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.

I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.

It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.

I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month. Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it's not to keep trying to be the best. That's not necessarily human nature.

I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.

If I live my life through nostalgia and what I did in the past and expect to be the new kid people have just discovered again, then unfortunately, I'm creating my own demise.

I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.

I like to improve all the time and never let complacency creep into my system.

You can't sit back, rest on laurels and think about the past - what the journey has been.

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.

My philosophy on life is that we're here to love and to learn. And I've learned a lot, so I can't say "I wish this didn't happen or I didn't make that movie." And I take responsibility for being open [about relationships] in the past. I have to, and now I'm doing what I can to make it different.

If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

I never wanted our players to think the Super Bowl was the ultimate. I always talk about 'Yes, we're going to win, but what are we going to do as we're winning? What are we going to do after we win?' Winning the Super Bowl is not the destination. It's not an end point. It's what you do from here.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.