Bill Belichick Quotes

The goal has always been to stay in Seattle and continue to play for the Seahawks.

They got all the size over there, and the teams are really good, so, I think night after night you're just going to have to be ready to lace them up and be ready to play. The teams out there are really good.

When you're facing a different guy every at-bat, he's coming at you with his best stuff. There's no warm-up; there's no 'see a pitch.' You've got to be locked in from the very first pitch... The biggest thing is do your homework before the game starts.

I take my sport damned seriously. Basketball is my life. There are other people who go into important games as if they were any other game. I'm a brooder and I spend a lot of time thinking about my opponent, about the things he can do and about what I have to do to win. I don't think I'll ever be able to change that.

I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers. I think Mike Singletary has made a big difference. He's done a tremendous job.

I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

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

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.

You can't go into a game lax and acting like somebody isn't trying to beat you.

My approach to games is much better and I am going into games with the right preparation and I am more relaxed, rather than thinking about things too much.

We work on our set pieces for every opponent. It's a moment of the game that requires a lot of hard work, defensive and offensively. We try to invest our time in set pieces.

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

In Charlotte, it was all about the Panthers.

The No. 1 rule you're taught as a receiver: You've just got to watch the ball. You hear about the guy who was lucky. But the guy who was lucky got an opportunity, and he was prepared for it. Sometimes the ball falls your way, and, you know, we'll take it.

I prepare the same for every opponent.

Even though I was sitting on the bench at Arsenal, I made myself prepare like I was going to play, thinking about the game properly. I had to be ready.

You need to be 100% focused all match long against Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

That really helps a player, knowing when they're going to go in the game and what they need to do when they get in there, what to expect.

Any coach, any team in the NFL, if they had Peyton Manning healthy and ready to play, I think we all know who is going to play in the game.

It doesn't matter to me who the opponent is, I'll be ready in all areas.

In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.

I don't worry about individual matchups.

You think of Brady, you think of Rodgers, Roethliseber, Eli Manning. They're icemen. They have no feelings - none. They're able to concentrate on a snap-by-snap basis.

I've tried to do everything possible to prepare myself and prepare our football team to be great.

I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.