Don Shula
FameRank: 6

"As player:"

* Cleveland Browns (–)

* Indianapolis Colts/Baltimore Colts (–)

* Washington Redskins ()

"As coach:"

* Detroit Lions (–)(Defensive coordinator)

* Baltimore Colts (–)(Head coach)

* Miami Dolphins (–)(Head coach)

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* 2× Super Bowl champion (Super Bowl VII/VII, Super Bowl VIII/VIII)

* NFL Championship winner 1968 NFL Championship Game/(1968)

* 5× AFC Championship winner (1971, 1972, 1973, 1982, 1984)

* 14× Division title winner

"Awards and Honors"

* 1964 National Football League Coach of the Year Award/NFL Coach of the Year (National Football League Coach of the Year Award#AP NFL Coach of the Year/AP, National Football League Coach of the Year Award#Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year/SN, National Football League Coach of the Year Award#UPI NFL Coach of the Year/UPI)

* 1967 National Football League Coach of the Year Award/NFL Coach of the Year (National Football League Coach of the Year Award#AP NFL Coach of the Year/AP)

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One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

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

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.

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

Then somewhere along the line — and it couldn't have been until late in the season — 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.

This is a big one.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.