A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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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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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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’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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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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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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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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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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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