Bill Belichick Quotes

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

I have to stay in my lane and focus on what I have to do and listen to what the coaches are telling me to do. They're going to make sure I'm prepared on game day.

Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick.

I'm trying to coach the team and that's what I want to do.

I'd like to coach the Liberty. That's my dream. But maybe I'd coach a college team. Either way, I'd like to stay involved in sports and to coach.

We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters

All really successful coaches have a system.

I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.

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.

Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural. Whether it's a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.

You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

Get your team in order, assembly is key

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.

Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.

Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.

Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.

I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working with half the team and you go through the game-planning and decision-making processes.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.