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.
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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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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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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After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
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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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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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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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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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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