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.
BOBBY BOWDENAfter you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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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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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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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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 learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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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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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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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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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