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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The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard
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They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.
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I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death.
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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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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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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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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.
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There were plenty of role models for us. My mother believed in education and she put all three of us through college at Grambling. She did not have a high school education, but it was something she impressed upon us. After I graduated, I left Texarkana for California, because I knew I could not get a job here. I was in business with certification and accounting, so I figured it was best to go out West. So I went there. It was still tough to get in that field, but things opened up for me.
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This puts entertainment officially on the map as a key market for the company.
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We haven't been executing well against strong defenses. The kids have to learn to have more patience. We have to learn more patience and let things develop.
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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.
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It's not my intent to denigrate what he has done. But the big thing is we didn't win. You have to win, and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here.
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That is why they are the best team in the state.