Pete Carroll Coach Quotations

What was I thinking? I was coming in after the coach of the decade.

Every coach talks about turnovers, but it's how deeply you emphasize it is where you get consistency. Our guys are riddled with the thought of having to go get the ball at all times in everything that we're doing. It's the number one emphasis in the program for us.

This is a fantastic and improved football team; the impact of the head coach is obvious,

It's a smaller kind of setting, but he's got great instincts for the job. Nick has taken that program over. He's a very hard-nosed, demanding coach who's going to get it done.

It was really a unique experience. I had been at the University of Pacific for my first three years coaching. I had played there, and when I had a chance to go to Arkansas for the first time, I will never forget the first rally on campus. It was crazy, and the energy was awesome, and the band was playing and the students went nuts. It was the first sense of what big-time college football was like, to be on the inside of it. That year at Arkansas was the year that really energized me about being a college coach and liking it and coaching on the big level. I got captured by it.

It's nice to have Nick back. He's an outstanding coach with great enthusiasm and fire. (He) knows our system well and was using it at Idaho.

I haven't been anywhere past five years before. I don't know what this is like. To tell you the truth, I've been a mercenary coach my whole life.

I had a chance to talk to Coach Wooden and asked him about the question of repeating,

He's never been asked to be a coach for an NFL job before. It came out of nowhere.