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
The start is what stops most people.
The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it.
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.
Lots of leaders want to be popular. I never cared about that. I want to be respected.
Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction.
Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.
I don't know how to lead but by example.
Learn from everyone, copy no one.
If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.
Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.
When we got them together for the first time on the field, ... and had Woodley throwing on one side to a group of receivers and Marino on the other, it was so evident the ability Dan had throwing the football. Woodley was an athlete playing quarterback and Marino was a quarterback playing quarterback. You could just look at it and see, even in the simplest passing drills, that Marino had that great skill.
You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.
The 347 wins is the thing I'm most proud of. Nobody's even close to it.
You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.