Belichick and Brady Quotes

“You’d have a list of notes of things that the player did and they’d want you to do it that way in practice. So they’d say, ‘He’s a guy who bites really hard on play action, so every time you see this play, do it that way. You want to give the quarterback a good look. You’re not reading it as you, you’re reading it as them. Play how they play and not how you play.’ Now, you’ve got to learn all your stuff, too, because you want to be on the team. So you’re watching film of you being him and you being you.”

- Matt Chatham”
― Michael Holley, Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football

“Overtime unofficially, was won when one of the Patriot's captains, Matthew Slater, called heads on the coin toss.”
― Michael Holley, Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football

“Gronk dancing topless was ice cream and cookies compared to this.”
― Michael Holley, Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football

“The linebacker protested the move and Belichick shelved him for the rest of the season. Amazingly, he'd never play in the league again.”
― Michael Holley, Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football

“Good quarterbacks were hard to find. Great quarterbacks were untouchable. Quarterbacks who understood the cap game and how to motivate their teammates were perhaps one of a kind.”
― Michael Holley, Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football

“Brady had not only spent time at the State of the Union address, clapping knowingly and compassionately; he had knelt before and presumably been blessed by the pope at the Vatican.”
― Michael Holley, Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football

“His family had San Francisco 49ers season tickets, and no sports fan his age could have asked for a better deal. From preschool to senior year, Brady watched his Niners go to five Super Bowls and win them all.”
― Michael Holley, Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football

“ESPN and every other media outlet in the country, and world, had a statement from the Patriots and an apology from the Herald Reporter John Tomase, who wrote the errant story about the Rams walk-through, apologized in print and on television. Yet Spygate, not even a year old, was embedded in the culture. There was no delineation between what the Patriots actually did, what they were accused of doing, and what analysts and writers imagined they could be doing.”
― Michael Holley, Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football