Top 50 All Time Dolphins Quotes

[Daytona Fin]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/...dolphins-top-quotes-s060409-story.html#page=1

50. "I don't think I've been asked this many questions since my mother caught me drinking in high school." - Don Strock after winning his first game as Dolphins quarterback in 1976

49. "I need this like I need another knee operation." - Dick Anderson after being named NFLPA president in 1975.

48. "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

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"

40. "We've never been closer [to the Super Bowl]." - Dave Wannstedt, after the 2002 season

36. "I can't talk now." - then-Baltimore coach Don Shula, hanging up the phone, when Joe Robbie called to talk about the Dolphins job. A fistfight between two Colts assistant coaches was breaking out on Shula's front lawn and he had to stop it

31. "When it rains it pours -- and we got poured on.'' - guard Kevin Gogan in 2000 following the 62-7 playoff loss to Jacksonville

27. "Five yards is my life!" - Don Shula to a referee who had told Shula to quit arguing, that the penalty he just called was only five yards

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

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 a legendary playoff game against San Diego

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)

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

 

[Digital]

Awesome!

But, as good as all of those are, my favorite all time quote didn't make it! Someone please correct me, but it was something like this... Don Shula said when he arrived at the lazy Club Med type atmosphere of the Miami Dolphins, the first thing he said to the Dolphins players was aimed to make it clear that he meant what he said and said what he meant. Shula's first words to the team were something like,

"I'm about as subtle as a punch in the mouth."

 

[spiketex]

"I wanna call my Grandma" Vontae Davis' reaction to being traded to the Indianapolis Colts by GM Jeff Ireland. I just hope that Vontae's Grandma is included in the top Dolphin quotes. It was a classic and his departure from the team was another Ireland mistake.

 

[El Calebra]

"He can take yourn and beat hisn. He can take hisn and beat yourn"

 

[72 Undefeated]

I believe Shula was once quoted "I don't get ulcers. I give them."

 

[Fin-Loco]

"What can Trent Green do that Jay can't? He's not as good an athlete. Jay will make every throw. - Dave Wannstedt