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In Buffalo, you can't imagine how much people revere Fred Jackson because of his high character, his community involvement, coming from a Division III school.

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Community, Buffalo, Imagine, III

For a long time, I was an assistant in the NFL to George Allen, and George was paranoid that other teams were cheating on him... that they were offering bounties, that they were wiring our locker room, that they were putting food poisoning into the pregame meal of the other team's stars, stuff like that.

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Other, Allen, Putting, Cheating

I never have suspected or sensed a whiff of cheating in any of our Super Bowls.

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Never, Super, Suspected, Cheating

My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had.

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World War I, Still, Works, Marines

I've always been entranced by writing.

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Writing, Always, Been, Entranced

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.

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Reading, Read, Poe, Edgar

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

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Plan, Say, Retired, Retire

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

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Young, Old, Means, Exceed

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

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Age, Inevitable, Aging

I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.

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Names, Away, His, Blew

Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.

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Play, Larger, Ruth, None

I exercise, walk a lot, and break into the occasional trot. I also lift weights three days a week, and I like to read about what makes a good diet. Overall, I do follow a healthy lifestyle.

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Exercise, Week, About, Weights

I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.

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College, Courses, Took, Law School

I went off to Harvard Law School for six weeks, and then I said, 'Doggone this, it's not what I want to do.' I remember when I told my dad I was leaving law school, and I wanted to go into football. He said, 'Be a good coach.'

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I Remember, Weeks, Dad, Law School

You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.

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Philosophy, Want, Part, Adhere

I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable.

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Book, Another, Anybody, Humorous

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

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Father, Happy, Woke, Struck

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

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NFL, Whether, Absolutely, Journalism

Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.

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Only, Your, Functional, Approximation

I just want people to finish the book and say, 'I was entertained.' When I set out to do it, I had no deal in place. I knew it would be tough. I read somewhere that John Steinbeck was turned down 22 times on his first novel. But I was just going to do it.

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Book, Deal, Turned, Entertained

I don't remember Bill Walsh being old. I remember young Bill Walsh. He wasn't gray-haired, and neither was I when we first met. His legacy will live on. Bill Walsh's name and his accomplishments will be remembered and revered so long as the great game of football is played.

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Legacy, Game, I Remember, Accomplishments

People sometimes ask me to name the greatest coach in NFL history. George Halas may have set the standard, but Don Shula has won more games than anyone, and he has done it in the most competitive era. He had an incomparable ability to evaluate players, to motivate them, and to teach them the game of football.

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Game, Sometimes, Standard, Motivate

If I had coached in high school for 60 years, I would have loved it. Getting to the top was not a goal. I welcomed the opportunities, but I just believed do the best doggone job you can, and good things will happen.

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Best, Had, Coached, Good Things

If there's age discrimination - and there may be - I've always felt that the person who discriminates is hurt more than the person being discriminated against, if the second person shucks it off and moves forward.

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More, Always, May, Discrimination

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

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New, Get, Hoping, Novel

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.

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Studying, Read, Also, Rises

I am going to miss Don Shula. I like him, and I admire him. I'm going to miss looking those 53 yards across the field and thinking, 'There is a coaching legend.'

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Legend, Like, Going, Coaching

I don't know exactly what are you supposed to do when you retire. Lie on the couch and do nothing? I didn't want to do that.

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Lie, Want, Nothing, Retire

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

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Old, Going, Before, Plus

Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and great coaches.

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Nature, Very, Great Teachers, Coaches

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