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Mental toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.” BILL BELICHICK, Super Bowl Champion football
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Darrin Donnelly (Old School Grit: Times May Change, But the Rules for Success Never Do (Sports for the Soul Book 2))
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Jean ValJean. I hated that fucker.
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Bill Belichick
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They were diverse when it came to religion, age, economic status, philosophy, and race.
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Michael Holley (Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion)
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They chose to be introduced as a team.
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Michael Holley (Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion)
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He tells one about a family vacation in Europe in the mid-1990s. No matter where they went, the Belichick’s saw dozens of Europe’s aged churches. They saw landmarks and a certain recurring icon. At one point Brian turned to his parents and said, ‘Who is this guy? We’re seeing him everywhere.’
The ‘guy’ was Jesus Christ.
‘I don’t know if I should tell that story,’ Belichick says, shaking his head. ‘People are going to think we’re bad parents.
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Michael Holley (Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion)
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Before they can know what they need, they need to know who they are. This is one of Belichick’s core philosophies, and it is why he was sitting in this Gillette Stadium room with a binder, notebook, pens, and pages of football statistics.
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Michael Holley (Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion)
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Belichick’s ‘genius’- a term he does not like applied to himself- is more than an ability to easily sift through distractions and nonsense and identify the central point.
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Michael Holley (Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion)
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Special teams, field position, and situational football are all Belichick staples
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Michael Holley (Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion)
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They’re going to come in here and blow smoke up your ass,’ the coach was saying. ‘They’re going to give you blow jobs , tell you how great you are, they’re going to pile it on thick…
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Michael Holley (Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion)
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Take the president of the United States, for example,’ he says. ‘I’m not talking about George Bush specifically as much as I’m generally talking about the position of president. What an awesome responsibility that must be to lead a country under the most scrutiny.
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Michael Holley (Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion)
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He is intrigued by complex minds.
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Michael Holley (Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion)
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They truly respect those who do grunt work, so much so that they are willing to promote them if they show the aptitude to be promoted.
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Michael Holley (Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion)
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To live in the past is to die in the present.” – Bill Belichick, 6-Time Super Bowl Champion
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Darrin Donnelly (The Turnaround: How to Build Life-Changing Confidence (Sports for the Soul Book 6))
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coaches would know; writers, most of whom at least try to talk to insiders; former jocks; former greats, most of whom know the game, but can’t explain it because of how easily it came to them or because it was simpler in their day; NFL assistant coaches; NFL head coaches; winning NFL head coaches; Super Bowl–winning head coaches; and finally, at the very top of arcane knowledge and expertise in a faintly ridiculous corner of American intellectual esotery, Bill Belichick.
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Seth Wickersham (It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness)
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What most surprises people who don’t know him is how much he enjoys a good laugh, usually when he’s away from work and sometimes when he’s at it.
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Michael Holley (Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion)