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.’
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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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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If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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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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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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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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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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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’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.
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