We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship.
BOBBY BOWDENSportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
-
-
The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
That’s not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It’s prepared them. I’ve never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
I’ve always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you’re fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
He who gets the best players usually wins.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
Discipline to me is sacrifice; it’s willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
I’m praying for a misdemeanor
BOBBY BOWDEN -
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can’t explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
BOBBY BOWDEN