'Just win, baby'. Al Davis had a simple but positive philosophy to life and looked to follow it at all times. To date, he's the only man in NFL history to have been involved in the sport as a coach, a general manager, commissioner of the sport and owner of a team. He was also a major proponent of civil rights within the game, refusing to take his Oakland Raiders where players of different skin colors had to stay in separate hotels.
Davis success is all the more extraordinary considering he never played a game of professional football before he became a coach; he was a solid but unspectacular player at high school level and never quite made the grade. He achieved what he did through persistence, and his long tenure in charge of the Raiders yielded three Super Bowls. In his honor, the Al Davis Torch was created inside Oakland Coliseum, burning every time there's a home game.