Al Davis famous quotes

04-01-2025

I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death.
-- Al Davis

#Able
We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here.
-- Al Davis

#Passion #Winning #Player
History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.
-- Al Davis

#Legacy #Fine #Maverick
A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.
-- Al Davis

#Athlete #Games #Play
Itâ€™s not important to be consistent, itâ€™s important to be right.
-- Al Davis

#Important #Consistent
You don't adjust. You just dominate.
-- Al Davis
They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.
-- Al Davis

#Defense #Want #Said
Approximately four years ago, we were told that Jerry Rice would be a free agent and there were people who felt that he no longer could contribute.
-- Al Davis

#Years #People #Would Be
The fire that burns brightest in the Raiders organization is the will to win.
-- Al Davis

#Winning #Fire #Organization
We would rather be feared than respected.
-- Al Davis

#Nfl #Oakland Raiders
No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.
-- Al Davis

#Football #Team #Nfl
If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.
-- Al Davis

#Years #Games #Nfl
Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.
-- Al Davis

#Nfl #Should #Oakland Raiders
Look, I don't want to win in the press. I want to win on the field.
-- Al Davis

#Winning #Looks #Want
Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.
-- Al Davis

#Games #Waiting #Wake Up
Just shred baby, shred.
-- Al Davis

#Baby #Surfing
I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.
-- Al Davis

#Football #Winning #Nfl
I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.
-- Al Davis

#Football #Passion #Winning
I love my country and I love my league.
-- Al Davis

#Country #League
I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.
-- Al Davis

#Winning #Thinking #Next
The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.
-- Al Davis

#Lying #Greatness #Raiders
The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard
-- Al Davis

#Down And #Quarterback
Time never stops for the great ones
-- Al Davis
I have never forgiven myselfâ€¦that I might have made a mistake.
-- Al Davis

#Mistake #Might #Made
Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.
-- Al Davis

#Decision #Way #Honest
Once a Raider, always a Raider.
-- Al Davis

#Nfl #Raiders #Oakland Raiders
One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
-- Al Davis

#Lying #Thousand

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