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 BOWDENThe greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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I didn’t want to play them, either, but I had to play them. That’s why I said, ‘When I die, They’ll say, ‘At least he played Miami.’
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don’t know. It’s in my blood.
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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship.
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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.
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That boy don’t know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don’t know the meaning of a lot of words.
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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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