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Don Shula

(1930–2020) American Football Player

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Don Shula was an American football player, best known for Everyone's a coach.

Quick Facts About Don Shula

Born: January 4, 1930
Died: May 4, 2020
Profession: American Football Player
Notable works: Everyone's a coach

About Don Shula

Donald Francis Shula was an American football defensive back and coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) from 1963 to 1995. The head coach of the Miami Dolphins for most of his career, Shula is the NFL's winningest head coach at 347 career victories and 328 regular season victories. He is regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by 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…

Any

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Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line…

Chance

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Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.

Failure

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As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the…

Attention

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

About

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I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

Formulas

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I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

Always

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He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his…

Alabama

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Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.

Conviction

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Success is not forever, and failure is never final.

Failure

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If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.

Confidence

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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…

Achieve

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I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

Example

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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…

Best

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Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Bad luck

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I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

Content

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

Bowl

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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.

Distance

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I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.

Appreciate

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Success is the peace of mind that comes when you know you have given everything you have to give to the opportunities…

Given

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And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

Against

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You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that…

Being the best

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It's the start that stops most people.

People

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“Work isnt work unless you would rather be doing something else.”

Work

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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…

Edges

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