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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.

Pete Carroll

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Pete Carroll
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 15
American Football Player
Coach
San Francisco County
California
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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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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?
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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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Stay hungry, remain humble and get better today.
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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.
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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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The how-to is all about day in, day out finding a way to feed the monster, the drive that lives inside.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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I will always be interested in the truth, yeah.
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It’s simple, really: Be great right now so that you can be great later on.
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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.
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Regardless of what other stigmas may be involved, I think we have to do this because the world of medicine is trying to do the exact same thing and figure it out and they're coming to some conclusions.
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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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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.
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