I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
BOBBY BOWDENThat’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.
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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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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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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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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