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.
BOBBY BOWDENTo 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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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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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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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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As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.
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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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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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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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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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