We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship.
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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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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’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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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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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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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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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’m praying for a misdemeanor
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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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