Pete Carroll Quotes on Past (7 Quotes)

After orchestrating an attack that helped the New England Patriotswin three of the past four Super Bowls, first-year Notre Dame head coach Weis has molded the Irish's offense into the nation's ninth-ranked unit (504.2 yards per game). It definitely has his mark all over it, ... What they did at New England is what they're doing at Notre Dame.

(Sanchez) had a very solid day today. We really mixed it around and played a lot of stuff off of the running game, and we tried to balance it out more than we have in the past to make it more realistic, and he handled it very well. It's a very positive sign.

I'm concerned, ... When you play against good competition, those can be factors that set the tempo of the game for you. That has happened to us in the past three weeks. Hopefully we can rid ourselves of that. But I'm not dwelling on it, or thinking that it is the kind of team we are.

For us at that time, it was exactly the right thing to do. We were going to win the game right there. You've seen us do that in the past. If we have the chance to win the game, we're going to go for it.

But if you look at the difference between the past couple years and this year, we've kind of gone off the charts in all numbers.

We've seen in the past that he can make it through the week without a lot of preparation and still play. We'll protect him this week.

I like (the winning streak) a lot, and we're working to hold onto it. We have a chance to do something good again. (But) I don't care about what happened in the past. It's about getting ready for this week.