A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
BOBBY BOWDENI’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.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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Discipline to me is sacrifice; it’s willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
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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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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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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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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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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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