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Learn from everyone, copy no one.

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Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

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If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing self-confidence.

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I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

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Lots of leaders want to be popular. I never cared about that. I want to be respected.

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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.

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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.

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He didn't like any play-action, ... He liked to drop back and go downfield. Of course, we didn't have much of a running game in those years.

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Dan didn't like play-action we didn't have a running game, so consequently we didn't have play action. Most of the stuff we did was drop-back passing or the shotgun, and Dan always was looking down field. He could sense where the pressure was coming from and quickly get the ball off.

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We had him rated right behind (John) Elway and ahead of (Jim) Kelly, ... But we never dreamed we'd have a shot at Dan.

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I got up and displayed some anger. I was sort of upset. Wouldn't you be

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And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team, the only undefeated season.

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It's a special place, and he has an appreciation for the tradition.

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He took over a program that was going through a lot of problems and he's trying to get it turned around, ... This would be a big step for him. (A win) would show they are headed in the right direction . . . That's a big job he's got, following Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama, 83,000 people. . . . College football is just very exciting. The fans are so loyal.

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It's like he's invisible around here, ... You never see him, never see him, but, gosh, what a comfort it is for us coaches to know we've got somebody like that here. What a security blanket he is. We ought to make all of our grandsons learn to do what he does. Long snapping -- that's not a bad way to go.

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I don't want a player that's content with not playing, ... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

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And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for 5,000.

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Obviously the Dolphins are 0-4 and not happy about that. They haven't been able to put together any drives offensively. If they can get something together offensively, with the great defense they play, they've got a chance to win some games this year, and they've got a chance against New England.

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You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

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No other league has had labor peace for so long. Tagliabue has managed to keep the two sides together, and they've kept playing.

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What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.

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Then somewhere along the line aa and it couldn't have been until late in the season aa we realized we had a chance to do something no one else had done To win all the games. That became important, but if we had to lose, we wanted to make sure that it wasn't in the Super Bowl. If we ended 16-1, the season would have been a failure.

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Now he's got the parts to make it all work.

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Invariably, the morning after the game, one of them was waiting outside my office to complain that he was not getting the ball enough, ... I never kept them happy. One was always complaining he wasn't in the game enough.

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He was a great competitor and what Dan wanted to do was win, ... and as long as he felt he was getting the right help from the sideline, he certainly appreciated that. I coached him 13 years of his 17-year career and we put up big numbers.

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