Don Shula

“You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.”

“What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.”

“You try to shut the criticism out, but it's pretty hard to do. You see people on the street, friends, people that you know are in your corner, and they come and tell you how bad they feel, and that's not the kind of conversation you want. I don't want anyone to feel bad for me.”

“He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.”

“I'm not going to worry about the critics until some of my peers start saying I'm a softie.”

“The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.”

“You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.”

“Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.”

“When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.”

“Losing a Super Bowl destroys all the good things that happened to get you there.”

“You take on what's right in front of you. You want to do the best you can with the opportunities that you have.”