Dolphins Quotations

To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.

My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.

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 filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.

Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles.

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction.

Not only have I made films about the subject, but I've largely funded them on my own, so I'm fully committed to doing whatever I can to change the audience's respect and appreciation for the ocean. In 100 years I want whales, dolphins and sharks to still be around, and the ocean to be a healthier place.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

I'm not a Saban guy, because I don't like liars, and I think he lied. I think he lied to the Miami Dolphins and to the fans of Miami, and he left. And it's pretty simple: I think integrity is very important; if you don't have integrity, I don't know how you can be successful.

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.

When we announced we had signed the agreement with the Orange Bowl to extend the contract for eight to 12 years, we said Dolphins Stadium was going to be the premier site for major sporting events in the U.S.. We're doing everything we can to basically make it a brand-new stadium.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

We knew this was always a possibility. There's still a possibility that he could resign with the Dolphins in a week or two.

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Who doesn't like dolphins? They're like puppies.

You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?

There are some initial studies that have shown some changes in the behavior of the dolphins. We're very concerned about the impact that these programs are having both on the individual dolphins themselves and on the dolphin population as a whole.

We are talking about drift nets the size of football pitches, trailed between two boats, scooping up everything in their way. Dolphins breathe air so if they get tangled up in nets and kept under water they drown.

Obviously the Dolphins are 0-4 and not happy about that. They haven't been able to put together any drives offensively. If they can get something together offensively, with the great defense they play, they've got a chance to win some games this year, and they've got a chance against New England.

Nick is an outstanding coach and makes decisions based upon the best interest of the organization. Dom is an outstanding coach. I enjoyed my time in Miami and am proud of what we accomplished. We had a good thing, and I expect the Dolphins to continue accomplishing good things looking forward.

I look forward to joining the Miami Dolphins whenever I am released or a trade is completed. The Dolphins are an ascending team with great coaching and I can't wait to get started.

We talk about our football team complementing each other. The Dolphins put a good drive together, and on offense we needed to step up and put some points on the board. That's what we did.

We thought we'd see some New England Patriots in their offense, ... but it was still Pitt versus Notre Dame, not the Miami Dolphins or the Chicago Bears versus the New England Patriots.

There are still a lot of Dolphins fans who have never had the opportunity to get to the Hall of Fame,

Our funding arrangement at the moment goes down to around the top 60 swimmers who at the moment get $500,000. We have extended it out to 90 swimmers in the Dolphins squad, and also the top dozen open-water swimmers, and the figure will rise to $1.1 million in the first year, and then increase in the years following. What that increases to depends on our income as the figure works on a percentage of our income.

Part of the conversations with (Miami athletic director) Paul Dee is they are about to put $120 million in renovations in the Orange Bowl. If they do that, it's not a concern. The contract has an out, if that work doesn't get done. Then we would play it in Dolphins Stadium.

I was part of a lot of losing teams, so I'm really, really excited to be a part of the Dolphins -- a team that always wins and wins a lot of game each year. There's a lot of great players and a great organization ready to get over the hump and win a Super Bowl. I feel like I have a chance to win that ring.

We are not surprised by anything. This isn't the same old Dolphins. Last year's Dolphins would have lost this game, but this is a new team and a new day.

We did the 1972 Dolphins a big favor. But why? Two weeks ago, the 2005 Dolphins handed us a home defeat, which might end up costing us a spot in the playoffs. It would have been sweet revenge on the Dolphins had we lost to the Colts. With all this talk of whether or not the Colts should have rested their starters, wouldn't it have been funny if we had rested ours? That would have been hilarious.

I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

There are 28 species of dolphins and whales in the Santa Barbara Channel. We see, typically, common and bottle-nosed dolphins. That was a pod of seven or eight juveniles and females we saw.

First and foremost, the safety and security of our fans remains at the forefront of every event held at Dolphins Stadium. We embrace the National Football League's pat-down mandate.

We cannot contemplate a scenario where we would stay at Dolphins Stadium beyond 2010.

Everything is somewhat dependent on whether there is a CBA agreement. If there is, Gus' contract issue could easily be revisited after the Dolphins look at other quarterbacks. But the issue still needs to be dealt with one way or the other.

Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?

There's plenty of talk, but not a deal. It'll probably be into Monday before we have something (with one of a number of teams.) The Dolphins have not been very aggressive, so I'm not sure they're a player.

I spoke with ('72 Dolphins Head Coach) Don Shula right after the game. He congratulated me on the victory. The fans got their money?s worth. I thought it was going to come down to the end and it did.

I've never heard Dolphins Stadium rock like that.

The Thames whale has demonstrated the tremendous interest and wonder expressed in whales and dolphins by the global public, and hopefully highlights the need and desire to conserve wildlife species in general.

This is a major development, so I will be contacting teams again and expecting to get something done relatively soon. I will talk to the Dolphins again and, as I did before, I will pretty much talk to every team that needs a running back.

A lot of people beat us bad last year, so I guess all 12 teams last year is a rival, ... The Dolphins vs. the NFL. That's the new rivalry.

Almost 1 000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die every day in nets and fishing gear. That's one every two minutes.

The year we beat Miami in the Super Bowl, ... do you know how many defensive linemen were in our rotation? Nine, and we used them all quite a bit. We just wore the Dolphins out.

It was fun. I've never interacted with dolphins like that. It was interesting see how they would use hand gestures to get the dolphins to do whatever they tell them to.

It is said, rather tongue-in-cheek, that when a virgin graduates from IU, one of the dolphins will swim away.

It might have something to do with his shoes, I don't know. It just didn't feel good. He's an important guy to our team. If his Achilles' tendon is swollen and not feeling right, I'm not going to put him out there. Not on that surface (the baseball infield at Dolphins Stadium). Play the percentages and get him right.

Doesn't that make perfect sense? Isn't it the Dolphins offense? We don't change systems just because we've got one new guy walking in the building. Why would we change it for all the players on offense? We want to build on what we have.

Dolphins frequent that area and we expect them to use the site a lot more now that the artificial reefs have been put down.

That's really up to the Dolphins about the money. ... This whole thing gets crazier by the day.

The best way to disrespect somebody is to just walk away from them. But that is the show business part of what we have to deal with, and to me it's wrong. It's a bad example for young people to see and it's not the kind of character and attitude that we want our players to represent this organization in, our owner, the Miami Dolphins ... or the people on the team who all have to suffer because of that.

The aggregates industry may end up being like the dolphins getting stuck in the net with the tuna. If they amend the (Mine Safety) Act, I don't see how they are going to differentiate between the different categories of mining.

Swimming with the dolphins is one of the things most people have on their lists to do at some time in their lives.

Swimming with dolphins is one of the things most people have on their list to do at some time in their lives. This will be a more authentic experience, and a more personal interaction, than anything else available out there.

I'm not going to talk to the Dolphins until (Monday).

I'm disappointed with the decision but I respect it. I'm proud of my association with the National Football League and look forward to returning to the Dolphins in 2007.

If you look ahead for the next two weeks, the next month, we should stay out of the way of those priorities being met. The appropriate time for the Saints to start playing games at LSU would be against the Dolphins on Oct. 30.

Instead of visually seeing, because we often can't do that in the river, this allows you to look at them with sonar. It's how dolphins see.

I remember the first day at practice when we thought, 'Why did somebody release him? We thank the Dolphins very much for letting him go.

I remember going down to Miami for our playoff game and I swear it sounded like there was just as many Patriots fans as Dolphins fans there. It was nutty. That was a wonderful experience for a player. The current Patriots are going through it constantly. We'd never experienced it.

If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong though. It's Hambone.

It has to hurt Miami, as effective as the two back rotation was for them last year. Ronnie looked to be a guy who could handle more responsibility and now he'll have the chance. But it's such a shame. After all the work Ricky put in and all the work the Dolphins put into him, it's sad for a guy who seemed to have his act back together.

Before the holiday break, the kids were really looking forward to seeing dolphins and learning about them. Now that everyone's back, I have to calm them down and say 'just a few more days.' There's just that much excitement around this program.

By 1:30 I was back on my way to the airport, ... It really was in and out, but it was a lot of fun. Out of the 17 guys, six were defensive backs, so I felt very confident that the Dolphins were interested.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

I am not going to comment on and worry about who or when the starter is (going to be named) because the bottom line is, like every Dolphins fan, everybody that I know and everybody that works in this building, wants to play the quarterback that is going to give us the best opportunity to win. That is what we are going to try to do and work toward.

I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.

There is something about dolphins. It is difficult to put into words...

You can only do what your players can execute and have time to comprehend and learn, ... So for me to think we're going to do a lot of the things we're able to do with the Miami Dolphins defense is unrealistic. And it's the same thing Charlie is going through.

The Dolphins had talked about taking me in the third round. But they called me about five picks before their pick and told me their doctor thought I would need surgery. When the fourth round came and went and I wasn't taken, I didn't watch the draft anymore.

The Dolphins are very interested. We're not trying to go on a world-wide tour, we're not going to see every team that is interested. If the right situation is there, there's no reason to go on other visits.

Connor smiles with mocking warmth at him, and glances at the tattoo on his wrist. "I like your dolphin.

I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

Among all the destruction and loss from Hurricane Katrina, this dolphin rescue is a bit of good news. It is a wonderful example of partners coming together to bring the dolphins to safety. This rescue effort is a success story for all the partners involved and for the public who have taken such an interest in the plight of these dolphins.

Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till-'t is gone, and all is gray.

I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans?

And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

Hey man, so can you speak to dolphins and pilot whales with that forehead of yours?

I'd love to sponsor a dolphin.

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.

There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage