Dan Marino Quotes (58 Quotes)

I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.

I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.

We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.

It's not like tennis or golf, ... You have to rely on other people.

We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

I'm very competitive and I let my emotions show. Most of the time what you see is me being upset with myself. I expect to be almost perfect, but I'm human. So, when I'm not perfect, I really get mad at myself. I always expect more of myself than I do of anyone else, and when I'm not delivering, there's nothing that makes me more upset.

When you work hard to do everything you can to win, it's disappointing when you lose. It eats at you a little... It's hard to put into words what being back in the playoffs means. Anybody who's competitive all year long wants the opportunity to have a chance to get in the Super Bowl.

I'm a quarterback, not a cook. I'm not a restaurant manager. Throwing is what I love to do. It brings me the most fun and the most pleasure. When someone's in tight coverage and you throw it by the guy who's covering him---like a fastball---to complete a pass. And the guy knows. He had great coverage and he still couldn't do anything about it.

You have to feel you're the best at what you do. You don't have to come out and say it. But you have to know it within yourself.

If you had asked me if I thought that any of those guys were better than me when I got picked, I would have told you that I was the best player there, ... If you didn't feel that way, then shame on you.

I don't want to say anything, because Todd and I are good friends.

I'm excited for him and the entire university. I think he'll do a terrific job. As far as recruiting goes, I think he'll do a great job because he is from this area.

I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.

As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.

I know individually you get the honor of being inducted in the Hall of Fame, ... but you see coach (Don) Shula up onstage and teammates and family and friends my mom and dad and wife and kids this day is for them.

I don't worry about things as far as statistics are concerned. I just want to prepare the best I can and play hard and smart to help the team every week. We have a lot of talented people around me and when you have guys who want to play and to win and they're not selfish, you're going to be a success.

I've always admired Coach Shula. I thought I'd be drafted a little sooner, but now I'm happy I wasn't and Miami was around to pick me.

I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

I know how important it is to spend time with my wife and children because I know what it meant to me to have my father and mother around when I was growing up. During the season it's not always easy... But I need that balance and I know that my kids and my wife need it as well.

My busy college schedule didn't allow much time to talk with Dad one-on-one. So Dad wrote me letters. The letters were always positive and filled with advice and sayings I could carry with me. . . Those letters meant the world to me, knowing Dad always believed in me. I saved all those letters and have them. . . in my home today.

We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

Once it's gone, it's gone. Golfers get to play their sport just about their whole lives, baseball players play a pretty long time. But football, it's over fast, and once it's over you're not going to get that same feeling, the competition, Sunday afternoon. Everything about it is going to be over.

I love to play football. I'm looking forward to a good year. Win a Super Bowl - that's all I want to do. I'm professional enough to give 110 percent. I want to win. For myself. the team, and the fans. I feel I've been a leader for a lot of years on this team. I'm going to do my part and play as hard as I can.

My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.

I'm a very happy man. In everyday life, just walking around, I'm a fairly pleasant person to be around most of the time. Basically, I'm pretty mellow. Really, the only time I ever get upset is when I'm playing football. When things aren't going right or something, that's when I get the most upset.

I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

Im not happy about it. I hope they find whoever did it and get restitution, anyway.

I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

What I cherish more than any record that I hold, any fourth-quarter comeback, any win that I was involved in ... is the relationships that I've made, the people I've worked with, the teammates I lined up beside, the opponents that I've competed against.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

When I was younger, there's no doubt I thought about being Joe Namath, ... definitely makes an impact on you.

I think I'm going to be around awhile.

In fact, during that first week after the Colts' game, when it hurt so bad I could hardly sleep and the blood was everywhere, I wondered whether, after thirteen years, the game was worth all this. I really started to question myself and just how much longer I could pay the price. But, like the pain, that eventually passed.

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

He's a tough kid, ... You can tell he's got the winning attitude and you can tell he's a leader and he makes plays.

I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.

We didn't win a Super Bowl together, and that's something I'll always regret not knowing what that feels like. But you and I have won more games together than any quarterback and coach combination in the history of the NFL.

I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

If you don't play to win right now, why even play I think that's the attitude of the coaching staff and everybody involved in the organization.

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

Everyone has secret ambitions mine was to be a rock singer. I thought I could sing. But when you sing in the shower, or with headphones, what sounds good to you doesn't always sound so great to others. My parents demanded I close all our windows when I ac

You can do more, you can always do more.

If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

He's shown such maturity as a young player. I think he understands what he has to do. It's not like I was going to give him any advice that he didn't already know. It's pretty amazing what he's been able to do the last couple of years. He has played like a veteran. He made such good decisions in the playoffs.

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.