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
Learn from everyone, copy no one.
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.
If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.
I don't know how to lead but by example.
I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction.
I'm just a guy who rolls up his sleeves and goes to work!
And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.
The one man team is a complete and total myth.
You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
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.
Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.
Success is the peace of mind that comes when you know you have given everything you have to give to the opportunities that life has presented you.