Don Shula
Don Shula
Donald Francis Shulais a former professional American football coach and player who is best known as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, the team he led to two Super Bowl victories, and to the only perfect season in the history of the National Football League. He was previously the head coach of the Baltimore Colts, with whom he won the 1968 NFL Championship. Shula was drafted out of John Carroll University in the 1951 NFL Draft, and he played...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth4 January 1930
CityGrand River, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.
To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.
You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself.
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.
I can't remember missing a practice because of illness.
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.
You take on what's right in front of you. You want to do the best you can with the opportunities that you have.
Losing a Super Bowl destroys all the good things that happened to get you there.
I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.
The thing we found out was, when you get to a Super Bowl, both teams are treated the same, talked about in glowing terms. But when the game is over, only the team that won matters.
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
I'm not going to worry about the critics until some of my peers start saying I'm a softie.
I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.