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And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.
Don Shula
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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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Grand River
Ohio
Donald Francis Shula
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I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.
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Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.
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The one man team is a complete and total myth.
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You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.
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And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.
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The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it.
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Success is not forever, and failure is never final.
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And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.
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The start is what stops most people.
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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
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To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.
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The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.
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I don't know how to lead but by example.
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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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Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.
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The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.
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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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Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.
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When you're there, it's not good enough to be there.
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