In the early days of his coaching career, Bill Belichick did not have any experience or success in the NFL, and he was turning down job offers from NFL teams. However, he knew that he wanted to coach at some point in his life and found a way to be a head coach for the Cleveland Browns.
Belichick had no experience in the NFL and was turned down by multiple teams. But because he wanted to be a head coach one day, Belichick sought opportunities to coach college football. He finally got an offer from the Browns, which allowed him to move on from his unsuccessful attempts at coaching in the NFL.
Belichick’s story shows us that sometimes you need to take action without thinking about time or money too much. Sometimes it’s better to start your business or make it.
Here are 69 most inspirational Bill Belichick quotes that will push you to take action for your dreams
“I’d rather be at the top of the list than the bottom, let’s put it that way.”
“If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you’re going to come up short next time.”
“Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.”
“To live in the past is to die in the present.”
“Every game is an important game for us. Doesn’t matter what’s the next week – who we play, whether it’s a bye week, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, Columbus Day. We don’t care. We’re just trying to go out there and win a game.”
“The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.”
“I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I’m accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.”
“You get the job done or you don’t.”
“I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook.”
“On a team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.”
“You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.”
“Mental toughness is going out there and doing what’s best for the team – even though everything isn’t going exactly the way you want it to.”
“I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air pressure. That is not a subject that I have ever brought up.”
“I have plenty of competition in football. I love competition, but I’m not looking to compete in something else.”
“Don’t out-dumb yourself now.”
“For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.”
“Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.”
“There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.”
“We’re always trying to do a better job on that and that’s what we’ll continue to do.”
“It hasn’t even been competitive. That’s the first thing we’re going to have to do is just find a way to stay competitive because these (first two games) have been over by halftime. We saw that last year too (on Halloween). It was 21-3 (Steelers) at the end of the first quarter.”
“I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.”
“There is nothing more important to a coach than a healthy team.”
“My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.”
“When you get wet, it usually means something good.”
“Whatever success I’ve had it is because I’ve tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach’s duty is to avoid complicating matters.”
“Understanding what not to do sometimes is just as important as what you can do.”
“There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.”
“It is not all about talent. It’s about dependability, consistency, being coachable, and understanding what you need to do to improve.”
“You get the job done or you don’t.”
“The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.”
“Do your job.”
“You definitely go through a stage, most coaches do, where you see a good player and you get enamored, you really like what the player does, but then when you put him into your system, it’s not quite the same player that he was in another system. He has some strengths, but you cant utilize all those strengths. If you try to utilize all his strengths, you end up weakening a lot of other players who are already in your system.”
“If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you’re going to come up short next time”
“Whatever success I’ve had it is because I’ve tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach’s duty is to avoid complicating matters.”
“I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook.”
“If you sit back and spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you’re going to come up short next time.”
“Not all teams use the same tests and certainly those tests are far from being 100 percent as well. It’s part of the process.”
“I’m a football coach. I’m not a doctor… They don’t call plays, I don’t do surgeries. We have a great deal here.”
“I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I’m accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.”
“We all, at one point or another, have played for a coach who is a jerk.”
“I think it’s relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that’s not what we’re talking about here with Seattle.”
“I think a smart guy can learn. Some guys learn – it’s just like all of us – some guys can learn electronics, some of us can’t. Some people can learn something else, some of us can’t. I mean, we’re all wired differently.”
“I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.”
“I believe to have a championship team you want to have a championship team in every area, whether that’s your starting quarterback, your strength coach, your medical staff, your area scouts, whatever it happens to be. We’re trying to work at a championship level of performance in every one of those areas.”
“I’m tired of pretending I’m not a rock star from Mars.”
“Tom and I have always had a good line of communication. We’ve always been able to talk directly to each other. I don’t see that changing.”
“For a team to accomplish their goals, everybody’s gotta give up a little bit of their individuality.”
“The only sign we have in the locker room is from ‘The Art of War.’ ‘Every battle is won before it is fought.”
“Knowing you have a good backup long snapper allows you to sleep good at night.”
“You have to go with the person who you have the most confidence in, the most consistent. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work, but I’m going down with that person.”
“I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that’s really about it.”
“This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.”
“I have plenty of competition in football. I love competition, but I’m not looking to compete in something else.”
“I’m a football coach, I’m not a doctor. The medical staff is the medical staff. I coach the team, the medical people handle the injuries. They don’t call plays, I don’t do surgery.”
“We’ll worry about next week next week.”
“We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that’s the way it is.”
“Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling”
“If you like football, and you like to come in and work on football, then the New England Patriots is a great place to be. If you don’t, if it’s a job, if you’d rather be doing something else, honestly you’d be better off with another team.”
“I’m not really worried about the other 31 teams.”
“Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you”
“We’ll continue to work hard to do a better job in every area going forward. I don’t know where those little things will come from but we’ll continue to be diligent on them.”
“The only team I’m worried about is our team, the New England Patriots. I can’t worry about everybody else and what everybody else in the league is doing. It’s not my job. It’s not my responsibility, and I have enough to handle right here trying to coach and get our team ready to go.”
“I think a good quarterback or a good linebacker, a good safety, even though you have a lot of bodies moving out there, it slows down for them and they can really see it. Then there are other guys that it’s a lot of guys moving and they don’t see anything. It’s like being at a busy intersection, just cars going everywhere. The guys that can really sort it out, they see the game at a slower pace and can really sort out and decipher all that movement, which is hard. But experience certainly helps that, yes.”
“I’ve learned a lot about the process. I had no idea how the balls got from the officials locker room down on the field and so forth and so on and all of that. That’s not something I have ever thought or concerned myself about [on] game day. I’ve concerned myself with preparing and coaching the team.”
“I think everyone is a case-by-case basis. Whatever the circumstances are that come with any individual, they exist and you have to make a determination as to what your comfort level is with that person and the characteristics that they bring.”
“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 think that we’ll continue to try to look at ourselves in the mirror and see where we can do a better job, maybe where we can improve the process. But I think the fundamentals of the process will remain the same.”
“We have absolutely done as much work as we can on finding out things like that and we’ll try to get all the information that we can as that would apply to any current situation, which I can’t talk about.”
