Doug Pederson

“Am I going to be good enough, because I don't have head-coaching experience outside of high school football? I've been around a lot of great head coaches in my career, but you begin to doubt. And, for me, it was the doubt of, 'Are the players going to believe me?'”

“I don't talk a lot about myself.”

“Everybody is going to have a bad game. One game does not decide somebody's season.”

“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.”

“An individual can make a difference, but a team can make a miracle.”

“My first signing bonus was 3,500 bucks. I bought speakers and a five-disc carousel CD changer. Dude, I thought I was the wealthiest quarterback around.”

“It's easy to sit in the press box and say, 'Hey, they should run the ball.' Come down and stand on the sideline with me and make decisions. You should run it here, you should pass it here, let's throw a screen here, let's get the quarterback out of the pocket right here.”

“I think there comes a time with a quarterback, especially when things go a little sideways, that players begin to try to do things a little uncharacteristic of what they've done in the past.”

“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?”

“In order to be the champion, you've got to play the best, you've got to beat the best.”

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

“No... I don't coach to be average, I'll tell you that.”

“Players are smart. That locker room knows. So don't hide anything.”

“Nothing about football is underrated.”

“I'm not a big social media guy, I have no Twitter accounts, I don't have Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, I don't do any of that stuff.”

“Coaches respect each other, and it's a tough business.”

“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.”

“I think the quarterback position is not one that's exempt from competition.”

“I've always liked Jordan Howard and what he's done in his young career. He's one of the top running backs, when you look at some of the production numbers.”

“I didn't stay patient enough at times, maybe.”