If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
BOBBY BOWDENSportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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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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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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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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 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 guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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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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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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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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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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