47. "It was always banging into things, knocking things over, and he was the kind of dog [that] if he ran away I knew he would come back." - Don Shula on why he named his collie puppy " Zonk"
43. "I don't have to be seen. I don't need glamour. Maybe that's why I like playing center. You can't be easily rattled to play there; and it's very hard to get me mad." - Dwight Stephenson in 1982
40. "We've never been closer [to the Super Bowl]." - Wannstedt, after the 2002 season
33. "I couldn't find London on a map if they didn't have the names of the countries. I don't know what nothing is. I know Italy looks like a boot. I know London Fletcher. He's black, so I'm sure he's not from London." - Channing Crowder on the going to London to play in the 2007 season
32. "He can take his'n and beat your'n and you'rn and beat his'n." - Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips on Don Shula's coaching talent
30. "Why don't you go right to the top and get the best there is? Don Shula." - Miami Herald columnist Edwin Pope to Dolphins owner Joe Robbie when the Dolphins were looking for a new coach after the 1969 season
29. "The enemy of great is good." - Jimmy Johnson on building NFL teams into champions
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
5. "You've got something special here.'' - Bob Kuechenberg to Don Shula at the first practice of Dan Marino in 1983
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
