48 Quotes by Doug Pederson

I was hired to be the head football coach, not the general manager.

I'm sort of a father figure to a lot of these players.

Football is a physical strenuous sport. These guys are running all of the time.

With the quarterback position, because you're touching the ball every single snap, you want to make a play and you just have to guard against that. It's about making the plays that come to you, not necessarily chasing after plays.

Our players are not immune to the things that are going on in society.

You know, it sounds a little, it sounds bad, but... I love being touted as being aggressive.

And I get asked all the time about my career, growing up as an athlete, as kind of an underdog type of player. I thought, what better to get your message out than to do a book?

For me it was just about staying the course, staying true to who I believe that I am, being open, being honest, being transparent with the players, being firm with the players but at the same time listening to the players.

You acquire all this new talent through the draft, through free agency, always having roster moves. And so being able to bring all of that together through training camp... you keep asking yourself that question of just how well can they join together and play together, and you don't know until you start playing in July and August.