Doug Pederson Quotes

Managers and players at different clubs, it's difficult to compare.

When you're paying millions of dollars for somebody to coach your team, you can find somebody good.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

I was once in charge of the Dutch team - and then I was introduced to club football!

I understand very well that if you are a national coach, you want to use all the opportunities that you have to meet up with your team.

It disturbs me to see a football coach fired.

If head coaches weren't important to the success of a team, then owners wouldn't fire them all the time.

When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced.

It's up to a manager to understand his players.

I'm the Real Madrid coach, and the demands are huge.

For a club to come and get you, they are going to use you at some stage.

In any rebuilding process, I feel like there's probably going to be two or three coaches.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.

First impressions are huge, especially with the coaching staff.

The Reeves Nelson debacle, that hurt me. There are certain things regarding him that I couldn't say then and still can't. But I should have pulled the plug on him after his sophomore year. We tried to make it work, but we couldn't make it happen.

You can't manage every footballer the same. Of course you'd love to, but it doesn't work like that. We're not robots.

When you're a player, you only really have to look after yourself. And then you go into management, and you've got 30 players' welfare to keep an eye on.

At the end of the day, you can change coaches and managers and players, but if there's something intrinsic, something wrong, then you have to look at what the common denominator is, and, usually, you've got to look at the ownership because everything runs from there.

My objective is to coach the national team.