Best 32 quotes of Dan Marino on MyQuotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

Nobody can make you a loser.

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

Swing hard in case you hit it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

You can do more, you can always do more.

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

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.