Top 40 Pete Carroll Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Stay hungry, remain humble and get better today.”

— Pete Carroll

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2. “The only competition that matters is the one that takes place within yourself.”

— Pete Carroll

3. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

4. “If you create a vision for yourself, and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life.”

— Pete Carroll

5. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

6. “If you want to win forever, you’ve got to ALWAYS COMPETE.”

— Pete Carroll

7. “If you want to be great, do it. There’s nothing holding you back. It’s all in your control.”

— Pete Carroll

8. “Relentless pursuit to find a competitive edge.”

— Pete Carroll

9. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

10. “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

11. “It isn’t about the words you say. It’s about the energetic message you send.”

— Pete Carroll

12. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

13. “You’re either competing or you’re not.”

— Pete Carroll

14. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

15. “It’s simple, really: Be great right now so that you can be great later on.”

— Pete Carroll

16. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

17. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

18. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

19. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

20. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

21. “If self-confidence is so important, why would we ever want to approach someone in a manner that might disrupt or shatter it?”

— Pete Carroll

22. “A teacher, coach, or manager who knows his learner is able to accurately communicate in a manner that best suits that learner, and the more effectively a leader can communicate his or her expectations, the better the results are going to be.”

— Pete Carroll

23. “I can’t ask the offense to score slower.”

— Pete Carroll

24. “Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.”

— Pete Carroll

25. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

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

— Pete Carroll

27. “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

28. “At the highest level in the NFL, the pass game is as complex as you can imagine.”

— Pete Carroll

29. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

30. “I just don’t feel like you can have enough speed pass rushers on your club.”

— Pete Carroll

31. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

32. “What if my job as a coach isn’t so much to force or coerce performance as it is to create situations where players develop the confidence to set their talents free and pursue their potential to its full extent?”

— Pete Carroll

33. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

34. “Congrats to Clare Farnsworth on a legendary career! One of the all-time great Seahawks! We will miss you Clare!”

— Pete Carroll

35. “Russell Wilson has got a tremendous competitive mindset and it stems from the confidence that he feels based on the preparation that he puts in.”

— Pete Carroll

36. “I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.”

— Pete Carroll

37. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

38. “I will always be interested in the truth, yeah.”

— Pete Carroll

39. “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.”

— Pete Carroll

40. “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?”

— Pete Carroll

41. “I would say that we have to explore and find ways to make our game a better game and take care of our players in whatever way possible. Regardless of what other stigmas might be involved, we have to do this because the world of medicine is doing this.”

— Pete Carroll

42. “Having a routine can be very powerful in this regard. If you compete day in and day out to excel at something in a systematic way, you can’t help but improve. While.”

— Pete Carroll