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.
BOBBY BOWDENCourage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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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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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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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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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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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’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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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