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
coach head next turn
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.
anyone facts improve points quantum resume score
It just never happened. Look, the facts are the facts. The resume is out there. You can all read it. We didn't score. We didn't score enough points with the firepower we have. It's something we have to improve on. ... Anyone can make a quantum leap. Anyone.
game greatest
I wanted it, and we had to have it. We do have the greatest game in the world, and we got what we wanted.
avoid central civil colleges happen hitting mean movement problems rights school streets taking tried
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.
raiders short
It may take a short while, but we'll get that nastiness of the Raiders back.
break great
At the end, he got his break with the networks, and he's done great with that.
five past raiders
The past is now the past and we have five years to make the Raiders economically viable. We have to be able to compete.
agreed deserve fans fit players raider
We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it ... I just didn't feel the fit was right, and I think he agreed with me.
came fans forward happy viable
We came forward with everything we could to make everyone happy ? especially our fans ? and see if we can make this an economically viable organization.
believed bill fit
We believed he fit the bill at that time.
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.
fit super vision win
You have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl, I didn't feel the fit was right.
points score
We didn't score enough points with the firepower we have.
able i-can seems
I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death.