If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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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’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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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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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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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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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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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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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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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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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