Al Davis
Al Davis
Allen "Al" Daviswas an American football coach and executive. He was the principal owner and general manager of the Oakland Raiders of the National Football Leaguefrom 1972 to 2011. Under Davis' management, the Raiders became one of the most successful teams in professional sports. His motto for the team was "Just win, baby." Davis was active in civil rights, refusing to allow the Raiders to play in any city where black and white players had to stay in separate hotels...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth4 July 1929
CityBrockton, MA
hit people yelling
No one hit anyone. Yeah, people were yelling a little bit, you know, but it's part of life. The idea is to go and get something done.
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In Texarkana, school integration was approached quietly, because they didn't want to have the problems like those taking place in Little Rock. That didn't mean there weren't problems. In Little Rock, with the integration of Central High, that didn't happen quietly, so here they tried to avoid those problems. I was at Grambling at the time, and we were doing things for the civil rights movement there. We were hitting the streets like a lot of colleges did, so we started going to other campuses and other cities.
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I love my country and I love my league. People who have ben through this in the past want something good to come of it. What's good is another question.
best team
That is why they are the best team in the state.
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It's time John took his rightful place in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He certainly brings an excellence to it that no one can deny. I saw greatness in him and he lived up to it.
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Bill was a great friend, a brilliant performer and an exceptional man. I say this with great admiration and love that Bill becomes one of the people that I give the cloak of immortality. Time never stops for the great ones.
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You have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl, I didn't feel the fit was right.
agreed fit passion super vision win
You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here. I just didn't feel the fit was right, and I think he agreed with me.
break great
At the end, he got his break with the networks, and he's done great with that.
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Of the three Super Bowls that we won, he was the starting left end. I've had so many great players, but Jerry ranks among the great players.
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I wanted it, and we had to have it. We do have the greatest game in the world, and we got what we wanted.
forgiven forgiveness might
I have never forgiven myself ... that I might have made a mistake.
believed bill fit
We believed he fit the bill at that time.
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This organization's not going to turn back. We're going to find a way. I'd like my next head coach to be winning-oriented. I want the right guy.