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Competition is Everything

(Partial transcript from a TV interview…)

“Competition is everything. If you ask me, "What am I?" I am a competitor. I battle at everything. Every single day at practice is competitive. Every day, somebody wins and loses.”

– Pete Carroll, Head Football Coach – USC Trojans –

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“What’s inside of kids and makes them different is the inner feeling that I am not going to let one day go by without getting better.”

“You are constantly in game prep. That never changes throughout the whole year. You are preparing for that moment – even in January.”

“What I look for in a recruit is a kid that can move… and so I want to see a kid that can jump, that can run, that can move after the fact. It’s not about how much you can bench, or what time you can run in the 40 – no that’s not it! The weight room is a facilitator to movement. Football is about going from A to B to C and then back to D and making a play… and making an impact when you get there!”

The X factor between two kids with the same ability is ‘want to.’ How much does he ‘want to’ do it every time. Not every place – that’s easy – you see Saturday’s, 92,000 people in the coliseum – that’s easy to ‘want to’ – but how about January 16th? Do you want to go hard that day? Do you want to train at the highest levels? Do you want to go ahead and keep pushing that envelope on how good you can be? Coach Carroll said, ‘I want to prepare at the highest level; so we can practice at the highest level; so we can play at the highest level.’ You gotta make them understand that everything that what we are doing right today, is gonna make us better in September.”

“I always watch these programs where a kid goes less than full speed and I am thinking, ‘what are you preparing for?’ How can you prepare for less than full speed unless you are going to play that way? If you don’t prepare these kids at full speed; if they don’t work every time they put their hand down full speed; their not getting ready! You know what they are getting ready to do? They are getting ready to get beat.

– Chris Carlyle, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach – USC Trojans –

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