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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Diet
Healthy Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Occasional
Weights
Overall
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Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Blitz
Chicago
Super Bowl
Bowl
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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Coaches
Quiet
Reserved
Teachers
Great Teachers
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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Sports
Activity
Athlete
World War I
Academics
Works
Complete
Fought
Marines
Shakespeare
World War
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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Hurt
Discriminated
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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Bird
Hunting
Twelve
Shot
Call
Creature
Laying
Struck
Woke
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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Good Things
Best Good Will
Coached
Welcomed
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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Morning
Father
Fun
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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.'
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Harvard
Remember When
Coach
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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Novel
Tough
Somewhere
Entertained
Finish
John
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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Babe
Figures
Ruth
Coach
Larger
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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Legacy
Remembered
Great Football Game
Accomplishments
Bill
Met
Neither
Revered
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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Book
Humorous
Okay
Pages
Serious
Subjects
Variety
Anybody
Broad
Street
Walk
Imaginable
Jot
Topic
Wants
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I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that... or 'Come on, you got to be tough... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Doctors
Pro Football
Pro
Shake
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Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Technology
Football
Team
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The caliber of play in professional football compared to college is better and everybody knows it. They don't realize how much better. What a giant leap forward in the ability of talent level, the speed, and even the grasp of what you are trying to do. There is no other distractions before the players.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
College
Football
Player
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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Cheating
Locker Room
Nfl
Offering
Paranoid
Poisoning
Wiring
Allen
Assistant
George
Locker
Meal
Teams
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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.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Evaluate
Incomparable
Nfl
Coach
Competitive
History Football Game
George
Motivate
Standard
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