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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If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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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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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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 guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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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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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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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