Latest Pete Carroll Quotes from Interviews

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• I just realized how bad it is when you're not in charge and you're a head coach.

  Pete Carroll

  Just Realized, Coaches, Head Coaches

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• We've lost a lot of coaches around here, but the philosophy and the approach, the standards we have set and the expectations we have maintained have always been upheld from one year to the next.I attribute that to the great character of the players and the willingness of the coaches to not get influenced and get off-message and to get out of the way.

  Pete Carroll

  Philosophy, Character, Player

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't have final say about what was going on, and I was always having to represent other people's views, and it was very difficult to be real, to be authentic, to be true because there were a number of people who had say about what was going on.

  Pete Carroll

  Real, Views, Numbers

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• One of my favorite guys was Ronnie Lott. I had and have such tremendous respect for him that when I finally got a chance to coach him, I couldn't get enough of uncovering and understanding what made him tick and what made him be who he was.

  Pete Carroll

  Guy, Understanding, Chance

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Troy Polamalu was a fascinating player, and that made him.

  Pete Carroll

  Player, Made, Fascinating

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Our philosophy doesn't change. We're always competing. But the ways to approach it and the ways to make that up and make it available to our players, there's no end to that. That's why the thought is that you're either competing or you're not, and that's why I'm learning and searching and trying to transfer information to our coaches and to our players.

  Pete Carroll

  Philosophy, Player, Trying

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• I read a lot of different stuff, but I keep being open to inspiration.

  Pete Carroll

  Inspiration, Different, Stuff

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Every year, something happens, and it turns me in a direction about where I need to go and what I need to do to give these guys direction.

  Pete Carroll

  Years, Giving, Guy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• I'm telling you what I'm telling you. I will go wherever I have to go, listen to whoever I have to listen to. Whether it's a player or it's a coach. Whether it's a corporate leader, a political leader or it's the guy sitting on the corner. It doesn't matter to me; I'm on, I'll go wherever.

  Pete Carroll

  Player, Guy, Leader

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

  Pete Carroll

  Dad, Winning, Tails

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• It's not that you're not smart anymore; it's that you're unwilling to do it. Coaches who coach know what I'm talking about. You just keep battling to help your coaches and your players, to refine your scheme, to break down your opponent, to find ways to travel and take care of your players.

  Pete Carroll

  Smart, Player, Talking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• My dad was a good competitor. I know he'd think I was a little off the charts.

  Pete Carroll

  Dad, Thinking, Littles

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• I think the stress of having to continue to fight the fight day in and day out, whatever it is, that which keeps you driving. You can get to a place where you no longer want to do that.

  Pete Carroll

  Stress, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• You do what you have to do to compete, and that takes you to places where you are in a relentless state to find an edge and compete. That mentality keeps you on and on point. The how is following the drive, being resourceful and creative.

  Pete Carroll

  Creative, Relentless, States

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• The how-to is all about day in, day out finding a way to feed the monster, the drive that lives inside.

  Pete Carroll

  Monsters, Way, Findings

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• You will find a way to make your message fresher. You'll find a way to make your connections in a way that will continue to inspire and direct and motivate. That's what I'm banking on.

  Pete Carroll

  Inspire, Connections, Banking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• I love Larry Bird, but I don't agree with him. I love him and respect everything about him. I learned a long time ago, and I've made this statement: Coaches don't lose their expertise and ability to make the calls.

  Pete Carroll

  I Love Him, Long, Bird

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• I think that drive to fight the fight day in and day out, I think that can go away. You can lose that. As long as you continue to be consumed and overwhelmed with the desire to get better and find another way and keep competing to figure out what you can do to help make this guy be better than he was a day ago, as long as that's there, I don't agree.

  Pete Carroll

  Fighting, Thinking, Long

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.

  Pete Carroll

  Men, Sweat, Needs

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• And sure, there's a universe where I made a bonehead call that blew the Super Bowl. But that's not my universe.

  Pete Carroll

  Super Bowl, Made, Bowls

• Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

  Pete Carroll

  Branches, Infinite, Parallel Universe