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Quotes by Dan Marino

All you have to do is try not to change. But I wouldn't know how not to be myself.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
I think I'm going to be around awhile.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
– Dan Marino
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
I'm in a unique position to help others. I don't do more than anyone else does but, through people and corporations I'm involved with, I can help raise a lot of money. That's one of the reasons we started the foundation, as a vehicle through which we could channel that money to worthwhile causes.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
It's an honor to be considered with the great players, but you have to consider the fact that I've had a lot of help. It's fun.
– Dan Marino
It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
Playing in the NFL, just competing against the best in the world, gets me excited. You know it in your mind - they're the best. But then you feel inside yourself, 'I'm good enough.' You can learn certain things from people, but in general, you have to do it your own way. I never looked at anyone and said, 'Hey, I'm going to throw the football like this.' I throw it my own way.
– Dan Marino
Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.
– Dan Marino
Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
– Dan Marino
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. Nobody can make you a loser.
– Dan Marino
There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
When I was 10, I entered the NFL Gatorade Punt, Pass, and Kick contest. I came in 48th place. My passing stunk!! I went right home, painted a target on my tree and started throwing. And throwing. And throwing. And throwing.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
You can do more, you can always do more.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino
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.
– Dan Marino