Pete Carroll Quotes

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

I would be a very demanding coach. I wouldn't yell and scream, but I want players that want what I want. And that's why I couldn't coach, 'cause I know how hard it is and I know how hard I want you to play. But everyone's not going to do what I want.

[Being a coach] is totally different, but I have a new level of respect for coaching that I didn't as a player. So much is expected of you and from your team. Everything falls on your shoulders.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

I would love to become the national team coach. I am aware that it is a tough job, but I spent 15 years with Italy. In my opinion, I have the right experience for this role and I know the environment very well too.

It's my responsibility to support the team behind Telegram.

Being a soccer coach is just like being a general who has the responsibility of guiding his troops into battle. If a coach acts too emotionally on the bench, his players cannot focus on their game on the field.

You never stop working, you never stop doing things because there's someone behind you - in a respectful way - who is giving absolutely everything in every single training session.

A good coach is good in the management of his men; he gives all of his players the desire to fight until the last.

When you care about the players you are working with, that's when they want to play hard for you.

I think every player gives a bit extra when he sees that his manager is fighting, too.

Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player. Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't. Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle. But it doesn't mean I give up.

Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.

In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

I try to give my best for the team, help the team, and try and go out there and play the best I can for myself as well.

I gave everything I could in trying to make Everton the best I could.

You've got to be the first one in the door and last one out.

I want to be able to help the coach and team as much as I can.

Ray Lewis, the greatest player ever, has been hurt a couple of times, but he has always come back strong.

With Marco Silva, the way he coaches players, he has that knowledge: he wants the best out of you, basically. He wants something out of you all the time, and having seen him work in a short space of time, it's only going to improve.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.