Bill Belichick Quotes

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

I was out of the country for a period of time but followed everything closely through other people in our organization and we've made the decisions that we felt were right for the football team and we'll continue to do that and be as diligent as we can going forward.

We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.

Alex Smith, what he’s done over the last two years for this football team, this is a mistake in not starting him. He needs to be the guy and it’s going to be tough if (Colin) Kaepernick doesn’t play well today and now you’re coming back saying, ‘Alex, we’re going to put you back in there.’

Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we'll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team.

My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.

Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.

I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.

I can't ever remember being struck by lightning when making a big decision. It's always about taking in more and more data points and making tack adjustments as you figure it out. I call customers, suppliers, industry analysts and try to get as much information as possible.

Every linebacker that plays in the NFL wants to be a starter.

A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.

Managers can make themselves look strong by selling or dropping players, but if the move doesn't work, the choice looks flawed.

The most difficult thing is football is to give the ball to a player that has the same colour shirt.

Early in my career, I played with a guy in Mike Rucker who was a threat on the other side.

Quite a few teams wanted me when I put it out there I wanted to go on loan. I thought Swansea was the best option for me.

Don't let... anybody in the Cowboys organization fool you into thinking they support Greg Hardy. They don't. They support sacks.

People say I should go to Real Madrid or Barcelona, but my team is Las Palmas.

The crowd at City are amazing, and that's what you want as a player - a good atmosphere.

I've always been very intimately involved in the playcalling on game day.

I have already told Vermaelen to come to Napoli 10 times. The city is magnificent and even Benitez asked me to convince Vermaelen to come here.

Of course, as manager, the selection of the team is very much one of the biggest responsibilities I personally take, but I come to that decision thanks to advice and support of the people around me.

[Being a coach] is totally different, but I have a new level of respect for coaching that I didn't as a player. So much is expected of you and from your team. Everything falls on your shoulders.

About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know. Much more time went into finding or obtaining information than into digesting it. Hours went into the plotting of graphs... When the graphs were finished, the relations were obvious at once, but the plotting had to be done in order to make them so.