Pete Carroll Quotes
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I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.
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Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.
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If you want to win forever, you've got to ALWAYS COMPETE.
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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.
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He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.
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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.
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There's nobody playing better than J.R. Sweezy
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Troy Polamalu was a fascinating player, and that made him.
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If you want to be great, do it. There’s nothing holding you back. It’s all in your control.
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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.
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At the highest level in the NFL, the pass game is as complex as you can imagine.
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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.
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It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach.
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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.
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Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know whats going to happen next.
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People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If theres patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.
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Recruiting is the lifeblood of any program, so you can't put anything above that, ... But it wouldn't matter who you had here if you didn't have the right mental attitude and work ethic. You need all those elements to come together to do something like we are doing.
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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.
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Relentless pursuit to find a competitive edge.
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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.
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The only competition that matters is the one that takes place within yourself.
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That’s the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.
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It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.
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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.
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We're not going to do anything different for this game since we're not treating this game any different than another game. Every game is a championship game for us, so we'll treat this one, the last one and the next one exactly the same. And that goes for our practices leading up to it as well.
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I always think something good is about to happen.
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So, regardless of what they do, we have to play like we’re capable of playing. That’s a greater challenge in itself, but that’s really what we’re after.
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The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.
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Congrats to Clare Farnsworth on a legendary career! One of the all-time great Seahawks! We will miss you Clare!
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I really admire the job that not just coach Belichick has done but that Robert Kraft and his family have done, and the decisions that they made to let Bill do what he's capable of doing. I think it's a great illustration of a way to structure an NFL organization when you let the coach really run the thing.
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