Dan Marino Quotations

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.

You can do more, you can always do more.

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

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

I think I'm going to be around awhile.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

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

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.

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.

Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.

We're getting a real break here. I don't want anyone to screw this up.

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.

Of course, in the end, every quarterback wants one more Sunday with a football in his hands and going deep,

From talking to guys, it's pretty hectic and goes along really fast, ... It's going to be exciting. It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so I think you just jump into it and enjoy it.

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 always felt that we had an advantage playing at the Orange Bowl.

Halfway through the parade (Saturday morning), my arm was tired. The support here is something special.

I think it was 18. Come on, give me some credit.

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.

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.

You get into feeling like you are in a zone. You can't be stopped. It's a good feeling but it never lasts.

It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.

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.

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.

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.

When I look at tricks, I look at Michael Vick.

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.

As a young man God blessed me with a special talent to throw a football.

Nobody can make you a loser.

The scoreboard can't make you a loser. If you walk off the field with your head up, you don't lose. You don't hang your head for nobody. People in the stands think you're the greatest or the worst - their opinion doesn't make a difference. The only opinion that makes any difference is your own opinion of yourself.

I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the applause is something every young athlete needs to learn. ... I think it served me well to learn how to handle everything that came with the game's ups and downs. Some people call it growing another layer of skin. I just call it growing up.

Swing hard in case you hit 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.

The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions.

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

What Peyton is doing is phenomenal,'' Arizona head coach Dennis Green said.

Every quarterback, at the end, wants one more Sunday, with one more chance to go deep.

Don used to watch our practices. I never had the chance to throw Sonny Crockett a pass. Then again, he never had to bust me, either.

Isn't Clayton a little old to still be playing?

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.

You never know at 16 who's going to be available.

It's not how hard you throw it, but how fast you get it there.

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 acted out my rock dreams.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

I can't tell you what it's going to feel like. I can tell you what it's like to play quarterback in a fourth-quarter comeback. I can't tell you what this will feel like.

All you have to do is try not to change. But I wouldn't know how not to be myself.