Bill Belichick

I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located - Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. It took two days. ”

There's no medals for trying. This isn't like eighth grade where everybody gets a trophy. We are in a professional sport, and it is competitive to win. That's what we do. ”

I like what I am doing. I enjoy all parts of the game - the team building, training camp, game days, the excitement of Sunday... it beats working. ”

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle. ”

Ultimately, the team has to come first even though we all have individual goals and preferences. ”

I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things. ”

What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on. ”

To me, if you see a play that's just a bad play, it's just a missed call, I think, as a coach, you should be able to challenge that. ”

Bavaro's probably as tough of a - physically and mentally as tough a football player as I've ever coached. So, I would put him in the rare category there. ”

I love Annapolis. This is home. ”