Pete Carroll maintained his usual mellow tone with the media today.

During a conference call, he was asked if he wants the running back committee to get narrowed down within a few games so that one or two clear starters emerge.

"If we’re winning, I don’t care."

Later he held a press conference for the USC media corps and was asked about LSU climbing in the polls.

"Where do those votes come from anyway?"

He continued to turn the tables on the press and asked a few questions about how the AP poll works. He didn’t know much about it — or at least he didn’t let on that he did.

If you want to hear more straight from the Trojan horse’s mouth, FSN Prime Ticket will premier "In My Own Words: Pete Carroll" tonight at 10:30pm. The 30 minute program, hosted by Lindsay Soto, will give a more personal look at the USC coach. It will rerun several times this month: Sept. 14 at 2:30PM; Sept. 15 at 10:30 PM;
Sept. 18 at 10 PM; Sept. 19 at 10 PM and Sept. 26 at 6PM.

If you don’t get Fox Sports, some quotes from the show are after the jump.

"The overall approach to this program is to win forever."

Coach Carroll’s epiphany courtesy of John Wooden: “Once he figured it out
and once he…got it together, nobody could touch him. I realized even
though I had been working to get to that point in my next job I might not
get 16 years, I might get 16 months, so I had better get my act
together.”

Is it harder to get to the top or stay on top?  “Anybody can stumble
into it.  I think it is way harder to stay on top.”

Recruiting is competition to him:  “Recruiting is building your
football team.  You’re going out and finding the guys who can score
touchdowns for you.  So, is that a chore? Is that something you
wouldn’t want to…Why would you not like that?  To me it’s the pulse
of the program.”

Being highly competitive is a good thing: “Competition is to find how
much you have inside yourself.  It is to realize your potential.
Without competition we can’t find who we really are.  In that, those
that make us compete to the highest level are the most important to
us.”

He takes multi-tasking to the extreme: “I find great solace in the spaces
between the spaces is the best way to tell ya. Sleeping’s overrated as
far as I am concerned.”

Carroll loves the Niners and the Giants and watching every Barry Bonds at
bat. “The steroids controversy hasn’t affected his love for
baseball:  “I’m a kid.  I wanna see him hit home runs. I don’t
care about that.”

Coaching at the collegiate level suits him: “The NFL is a blast.  It
is a great place to compete at.  It is the highest level, most
resources, all that stuff, greatest athletes and coaches in the world.
However, this I think has…I like it more.  I am having more
fun.  I think it is basically because of the freedom.”

He finds the fun in everything:  “I really live my life thinking
that something good is about to happen…And maybe it is because I’m ADD
you know?  ADD is a beautiful thing because you never get
bored.”