Looks like Pete Carroll’s going to coach the Seahawks. I read this 2007 Los Angeles Magazine article about a month back. It’s long, but it’s really, really good: 23 Reasons Why a Profile of Pete Carroll Does Not Appear in this Space
Carroll gave up fear long ago. He gave it up the way people give up carbs. Fear now has no part in his daily life. Fear is like an old, distant friend. They know each other well, talk once in a while, but they’re not close like they used to be.
In meetings, practices, pregame talks, fear is Carroll’s theme. “That’s what we’re all about,” he says, lying back on the leather sofa in his office one night. “Our entire approach is to come to the point where we have the knowing that we’re going to win. There’s nothing to stop us but ourselves. To do that is to operate in the absence of fear.”
Let’s hope this theme works on millionaires the same way it worked for college kids.