I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
BOBBY BOWDENI used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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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.
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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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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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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.
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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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.
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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them.
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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