Pete Carroll
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.Collection: Power
People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.Collection: Patience
It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.
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 what's going to happen next.
In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.
The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their natural expression of the best they can possibly be comes out of them because there is no boundary to hold them back... That's the mentality that I'm trying to create, recreate and hold on to forever.
I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.
At the highest level in the NFL, the pass game is as complex as you can imagine.
Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.
My mom was really cool. She's the one that gave me the mentality about believing in myself and trusting it, that I was always gonna be okay, and that I could do things in a special way. She just pumped me up, you know?
I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But when I went to high school, I was undersized. I didn't grow. I was behind the whole puberty cycle. I didn't like high school.
It's about being the very best you can be. Nothing else matters as long as you're working and striving to be your best. Always compete. It's truly that simple. Find the way to do your best. Compete in everything you do.Collection: Simple
I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face.Collection: Powerful
Stay hungry, remain humble and get better today.Collection: Humble
If you want to be great, do it. There’s nothing holding you back. It’s all in your control.Collection: Want
The only competition that matters is the one that takes place within yourself.Collection: Competition
If you create a vision for yourself, and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life.Collection: Vision
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.Collection: Winning
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.Collection: Mistake
Of course we want to win every game, but winning forever is more about realizing your potential and making yourself as good as you can be. Realizing that is a tremendous accomplishment, whether it's in football or in life.Collection: Football
I always think something good is about to happen.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Philosophy
It’s simple, really: Be great right now so that you can be great later on.Collection: Simple
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.Collection: Team
It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them.Collection: Giving Up
I'm talking about: Are we competing today, every minute, in everything we do in practice. Are we letting loose and daring to be great here and now? And can we sustain that? And repeat it. Trophies are great, but we're trying to win forever.Collection: Winning
If you want to win forever, you've got to ALWAYS COMPETE.Collection: Winning
Congrats to Clare Farnsworth on a legendary career! One of the all-time great Seahawks! We will miss you Clare!Collection: Careers
The how-to is all about day in, day out finding a way to feed the monster, the drive that lives inside.Collection: Monsters
I wanted to find out if we went to the NFL and really took care of guys, really cared about each and every individual, what would happen?Collection: Nfl
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.Collection: Teacher
And sure, there's a universe where I made a bonehead call that blew the Super Bowl. But that's not my universe.Collection: Super Bowl
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.Collection: Philosophy
I can't ask the offense to score slower.Collection: Nfl
I will always be interested in the truth, yeah.Collection: Yeah
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.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Player
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.Collection: Stress
Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.Collection: Branches
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.Collection: Football
We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.Collection: Men
I just don’t feel like you can have enough speed pass rushers on your club.Collection: Clubs
You're either competing or you're not.Collection: Competing
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.Collection: Attitude
Relentless pursuit to find a competitive edge.Collection: Relentless
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.Collection: Practice
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.Collection: Creative
I read a lot of different stuff, but I keep being open to inspiration.Collection: Inspiration