03 June 2010
There is a great article from the Boston Globe on Coach Pete Carroll that came out today. If you have a few minutes of free time, then I encourage you to read the whole article. I put together a few quotes below. The article really puts into perspective why Coach Carroll has a "Win Now" philosophy. Enjoy!
- “I’m not gonna be one of those guys — build for the future, and by Year 3 we’ll be this or that. I couldn’t care less about that type of thinking. We’re trying to win our division right now, and see how far we can take it."
- Regarding his tenure in New England: “I didn’t try very hard to convince anybody that I was exactly the right guy for the job,’’ Carroll said. “I was just doing the job, knowing that I was. I didn’t work at selling my approach, my principles, to try and give myself a base of understanding. I didn’t appreciate that thought at that time. I didn’t think I needed to do that. That was a mistake. I was following a tremendous football season and team, an extraordinary head coach with charisma and stature and all that. And I didn’t care about any of that stuff. I was just gonna coach the heck out of them, and my coaching was gonna win out. I wasn’t gonna worry about that stuff, and that was a mistake.’’
- “Early on in that search of writing, filling out notebooks and stuff, to put things on the paper, it hit me that I’m a competitor,’’ Carroll said. “That was enormous for me. It was like, ‘Well, no kidding, I’ve been competing my whole life at everything I do.’ And so it only makes sense that if I’m gonna build the structure of a program, the central theme is gonna be competition."
- “He’s confident in his plan,’’ says Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck. “He’s so confident that he’s figured out the recipe for success and how to win. His principles are key to that. He said to us, ‘When I coached in the NFL before, I had things I believed in, but I didn’t know who I was.’ He’s very transparent, open and honest with us.’’
- "Competition is the central theme. Competition at every position, for every job, within the division, within the league. And his message is, ‘If we show up every day, and do it this way, why can’t we be the best?’ ’’
Enjoy the article!
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