Classic Quotes
sorry if this has been posted (it prob has) but these are some really good/funny quotes that summarize our history...
25. "The organization has struggled from a personnel standpoint over the years. For instance, they drafted me in the second round. ... You don't recover from those types of mistakes." —
Rob Konrad on the team's questionable draft picks from 1998-2003
24. "Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?" —
Jimmy Johnson after drafting
Daryl Gardener in 1996
23. "What can
Trent Green do that Jay can't? He's not as good an athlete. Jay will make every throw. [Green] played this year, and I don't think really helped his stock much." —
Dave Wannstedt, on why he liked quarterback
Jay Fiedler over the available Trent Green in January 2001
22. "With Larry Shannon coming to our football team, by the way, he's probably a step faster than
Randy Moss. So he's bigger, he's taller, he's faster." —
Jimmy Johnson after passing on Moss in the 1998 draft
21. "Not bad for a guy on one ankle." — New England coach
Bill Parcells, shaking
hands with
Dan Marino after the
Dolphins quarterback threw five touchdown passes in the season opener of 1994. It was Marino's first game back from an Achilles injury.
20. "Ted Ginn and his family will give us everything they have." —
Cam Cameron upon drafting Ted Ginn Jr. in 2007
19. "It's just the people in Buffalo — you have to understand that they're a whole different breed of people, a whole different breed of species." —
Bryan Cox in 1993 on why he flipped his middle
finger to the Buffalo crowd upon being introduced
18. "Who's he?" —
Don Shula when the
Jets took Ken O'Brien with the 24th pick in the 1983 draft, leaving Dan Marino for the Dolphins
17. "I'm the idiot that hired all the geniuses." — Former owner
Joe Robbie after the team's fifth
Super Bowl (two wins, three losses) in 1985
16. "I've never heard anything like it. It was like we were still on the field. It was that loud. We were in the locker room, what — 10, 15 minutes? — and it never stopped!" —
Don Strock of the 1982 successful hook-and-ladder play just before halftime of a legendary playoff game against San Diego
15. "You're missing an earring." —
Don Shula, when tight end Marv Fleming brandished a new earring at training camp in 1972 and asked Shula what he thought of it
14. "We liked a couple of those receivers up there, but we didn't feel there was a guy that was going to come in and make more of a contribution than a linebacker." —
Dave Wannstedt, on why he chose Eddie Moore over Anquan Boldin in the 2003 draft
13. "Dammit! How many times have I told you?" —
Jimmy Johnson, throwing a portable television at offensive coordinator
Gary Stevens on the flight back from the New England playoff loss in 1997 after watching the video and seeing the
Patriots had stolen the Dolphins' calls (from former scouting director Bob Ackles' autobiography,
The Water Boy)
12. "I had my Gatorade shower at No. 324. When you get my age, you can't take too many of those ice-cold showers." —
Don Shula on why he got a ride on his players' shoulders after victory No. 325 in Philadelphia in 1993
11. "Jason will definitely help the family's gene pool." —
Zach Thomas on
Jason Taylor marrying his sister, Katina
10. "We all figured we had it made — that these tall, beautiful women were going home with us. Then, all of a sudden, one of the fellows stood up, pointed at one of them and yelled, 'She's got a Johnson!' After that, we pretty much tore the place up. The cops were called, and it was a big incident. Apparently the club had signed up a bunch of female impersonators to work the room, but hey, it was 1972. None of us knew what a drag queen was." —
Larry Csonka on a party in New Orleans in the days before Super Bowl VI
9. "My track record in picking people in business has been great. My track record in sports? Ehhh." —
H. Wayne Huizenga in hoping he picked right with Cam Cameron and Randy Mueller in 2007
8. "Go at the rookie!" —
Bernie Kosar from the sideline into the helmet headset of Dan Marino, telling him to throw the infamous "Clock Play" at New York Jets rookie
Aaron Glenn
7. "Well, then I guess I have to say it: I'm not going to be the Alabama coach." —
Nick Saban a few weeks before taking the Alabama job after the 2006 season
6. "The next time I see a doctor, it better be for an autopsy." —
A.J. Duhe in 1984 after his fifth operation in 18 months
5. "You've got something special here." —
Bob Kuechenberg to Don Shula at the first practice of Dan Marino in 1983
4. "We lose this game, I'm going to kill you!" —
Nick Buoniconti on the sideline to Garo Yepremian in Super Bowl VII after the kicker threw a botched field-goal attempt into the hands of Washington's Mike Bass, who returned it for a touchdown.
3. "Now when I go to the bathroom I find out who my friends are." —
Jake Scott after both broken hands were in casts following the 1972 season
2. "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken s---. Name me a great player we have besides Danny. You can't. We were No. 2 in the passing game. No. 2 in the passing game! How did we do it? With our players, you tell me, how did we do it? We have to throw. We couldn't run. And do we have a great running back? No." — offensive coordinator
Gary Stevens after losing in the 1997 playoffs
1. "I think about 40 people." —
Don Shula when asked after a second straight Super Bowl in 1974 who had written "Best Ever" on the blackboard in the locker room