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And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

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Don Shula
Age: 90 †
Born: 1930
Born: January 4
Died: 2020
Died: May 4
American Football Coach
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Football Coach
Grand River
Ohio
Donald Francis Shula
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Everything that I have done has always been predicated on doing the best that I can with the ability that God has given me, trying to reach as far as I possibly can. And if I fall a little bit short, then I'm still farther ahead than if I hadn't reached at all.
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The start is what stops most people.
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Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.
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I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.
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Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
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I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
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The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.
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My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
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