Pete Carroll Quotes

As a sportsman, you always play to win. Having said that, it's not possible to win every day. There will be days when you will do well and there will be days you won't.

You train hard and I'll train hard, and may the best man win, and good luck to both of us.

Obviously I would have loved to have won, but I have had a good run every match.

I just fought with all my heart. I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

I love getting out of bed for competition.

Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.

If they can beat me, fine. But I'm not leaving until they beat me.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part.... The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Our teams always play hard.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

We don't always get our respect but you've got to deal with it and go out there every week and just win football games.

I've been an athlete and competitor my whole life, and there's nothing more that I get off on than competition.

My challenge is to win every match I play.

For me, what it means to be competitive is to work hard but compete in this type of game when you need to play, you need to suffer, you need to fight.

When I step on the court I'm going to compete. That's one of the reasons I work hard everyday.

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.