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
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Once a Raider, always a Raider.
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I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.
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Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.
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No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.
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If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.
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We would rather be feared than respected.
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The fire that burns brightest in the Raiders organization is the will to win.
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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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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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I wanted it, and we had to have it. We do have the greatest game in the world, and we got what we wanted.
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At the end, he got his break with the networks, and he's done great with that.
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We must run the ball better. It's unbelievable. I thought one of our standards of gold this year would be our offensive line. We have some bright young players there. And we never did get the toughness, or what I would call the power running, that I thought we were going to get.
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We've gotta run that football better, we've gotta run it tougher, and people have to understand that they're gonna get knocked. Not what we call zone blocking.
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Mike has always been of interest because he is dynamic, he is not afraid. But there is a fear right there of the physical. I don't know if we are ready to accept that.