Bill Belichick finally explains his "no days off" motto
North Carolina coach Bill Belichick could use some good P. R. There's no better way to get it than to appear on a wildly popular podcast and, in so doing, attempt to come off as almost human.
He largely accomplished that in his visit with Pardon My Take , even if — as Carmine Lupertazzi once said — a Don never wears shorts. During the extended interview, the issue of Belichick's "no days off" motto came up. After all these years, Belichick explained that it doesn't reflect a maniacal mandate to working every single day but a commitment to working hard on work days.
"Most people don't really understand what that means — or what it meant to us, I should say — what it meant to us," Belichick said. "What it meant to us was, when you come to work, you go to work. You don't come to work and dillydally around and like, 'I was here, I broke a sweat, I showed up,' and go home.
That's a day off. "When we said, 'no days off,' we meant, 'You come to work, you're ready to work, you're prepared, you put in a good day's work,' OK? Maybe tomorrow's an off day.
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