I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
BOBBY BOWDENIf short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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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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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After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
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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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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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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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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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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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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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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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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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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