Doug Pederson Quotes

I enjoy coaching.

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

I am there for the athletes I coach.

I'm the type of manager who doesn't really like the word 'manage.' Nor do I really like the word 'boss.' I like to look at myself as more as a leader.

I didn't get into coaching to make money. I got into this for the coaching and teaching part.

My passion is promoting and training.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I love doing what I do. I'm a born mentor. I've launched so many people's careers. I worked hard.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

A director just pushes them a little this way or that way.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

A conductor should guide rather than command.

I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.