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Article: Don Shula: building a winner.(Legends of South Florida)
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- October 1, 2005
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Spend an hour talking with Don Shula, and one thing becomes clear: whether it is the X's and O's of a professional football game or vying for the best hand during a poker game, the man is obsessed with winning.
"I'm a natural-born competitor," says the 75-year-old former Miami Dolphins head coach. "Whether it was in pick-up games or card games or whatever the game was, I always wanted to win. It was just an inherent trait of being a competitor. I just hated to lose."
Shula brought that intensity and winning attitude to South Florida in 1970 when he took over as coach of the Dolphins. At the time, the 4-year-old professional football franchise had never ...