They Said It

?Dorothy Shula, on the career dedication of her husband, the Miami Dolphins' coach: "I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral."

? Dick Lynch, the New York Giants' radio color man, summing up the reaction of NFL rivals to Green Bay's acquisition of Wide Receiver John Jefferson to go with its other star receiver, James Lofton: "It's like finding out your mother-in-law has a twin sister."

? John Pont, now an insurance man in Cincinnati, whose career as a college football coach carried him from Miami ( Ohio), to Yale, to Indiana, to Northwestern: "I was recruited by Sid Gillman; I was coached by Woody Hayes and Ara Parseghian, and I coached with, Bo Schembechler. At Indiana I was closely associated with Bobby Knight. All of these quiet, reserved, unemotional individuals left their marks on me."