Bill Belichick & Ray Dalio on Bill's Most Important Principles: Part 2

Yeah, and that's that. Of course, it is harder to do in today's society with social media, and so there's a lot of feedback from social media.

People who don't know the players, the team, have an opinion—like, dislike, whatever it is—but they don't really know. But I would say sometimes people get influenced by that versus the people who are in the room that are their teammates. Those are the relationships that are really important, not the 2,000 people that you don't know.

And those are the relationships that we try to build. Not, you know, not the external ones. I'm not saying they shouldn't exist. I'm just saying as it relates to performance, the performance component of it is the coaches, the players, the training, the people that train the athletes, the nutritionists—all those. That's the performance part of it.

But there's a lot of outside noise that shouldn't affect those things, but sometimes it could or it does. And that's true through our whole society. Oh, absolutely! I'm sure you get plenty of advice.