Pete Carroll
Pete Carroll
Peter Clay Carrollis an American football coach who is the head coach and executive vice president of the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He is a former head coach of the New York Jets, New England Patriots, and the USC Trojans of the University of Southern California. Carroll is one of only three football coaches who have won both a Super Bowl and a college football national championship. At 7009204733440000000♠64 years, 320 days, Carroll is the oldest head coach currently...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth15 September 1951
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
We were on a torrid pace to self-destruct.
What was I thinking? I was coming in after the coach of the decade.
When you first look at their team, you can't see anything but him. He's a fantastic player. Your eyes are drawn to him.
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.
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.
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.
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 defense played well because the run-and-shoot is truly a challenge.
The defenses are similar but the points of emphasis are different. We each do something a little different.
Without a question it was a phenomenal effort. You can't take anything away from a special performance like that.
(UA) played really hard, and they had a very good defense, ... Their scheme is very solid. They know how to mix their looks and their pressures. They came after us and were really effective. We respect the heck out of what they are doing and what they are capable of doing.
We weren't cheering when the new BCS ranking came out this morning. I know that, ... The BCS ranking is really important when you finish the season, not now.
We'll cooperate fully and do whatever we can to assist.
We'll cooperate fully and do whatever we can to assist. We take these things very seriously. We don't know the facts, but the nature of the allegations are serious.