Quotes About Al Davis

#1. In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

John Madden

#2. Al Davis is the kind of guy who would steal your eyes and then try to convince you that you looked better without them

Sam Rutigliano

#3. Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.

John Madden

#4. Al Davis treated me like son. That man helped me become the man I am today.

Sebastian Janikowski

#5. Don't treat people how you want to be treated, treat them how they want to be treated.

Al Davis

#6. Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

Al Davis

#7. Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.

Al Davis

#8. History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

Al Davis

#9. Once a Raider, always a Raider.

Al Davis

#10. Just shred baby, shred.

Al Davis

#11. The fire that burns brightest in the Raiders organization is the will to win.

Al Davis

#12. I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.

Charlie Watts

#13. They say ... the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.

Al Davis

#14. It's not important to be consistent, it's important to be right.

Al Davis

#15. 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

#16. Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.

Al Davis

#17. 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

#18. We would rather be feared than respected.

Al Davis

#19. They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

Al Davis

#20. I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.

Al Davis

#21. Look, I don't want to win in the press. I want to win on the field.

Al Davis

#22. The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.

Al Davis

#23. No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.

Al Davis

#24. You don't adjust. You just dominate.

Al Davis

#25. 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

#26. I love my country and I love my league.

Al Davis

#27. 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

#28. A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.

Victor Davis Hanson

#29. The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard

Al Davis

#30. A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.

Al Davis

#31. Howard Dean was endorsed by Al Gore. Now, if Dean could get Gray Davis to campaign for him, that would put him over the top.

Jay Leno

#32. I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death.

Al Davis

#33. There was also talk of bringing Al Gore to California to help out, but there was concern that Gray Davis and Al Gore in the same state would cause some kind of rolling personality blackout.

Jay Leno

#34. Time never stops for the great ones

Al Davis

#35. I don't want to say Gray Davis is on the run, but today he released an audiotape on the Al Jazeera network from his underground bunker somewhere in the Sacramento area.

Jay Leno

#36. I have never forgiven myself ... that I might have made a mistake.

Al Davis