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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

Bobby Bowden

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.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Game Happy New Something Year
Discipline to me is sacrifice; it’s willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Game Giving Sacrifice Something Up
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.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Dropped Else Mad People Use
Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Coaches Country Game Happen Something
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.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Blood Desire Way
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.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Adversity Case Prepared Some Tough
We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Championship MIssed National Point
Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Game Going Hard Something Out Sportsmanship
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.’
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Either Played Point Said
He who gets the best players usually wins.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Player Sports Winning
Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Game Something Young
I’m praying for a misdemeanor
BOBBY BOWDEN

Misdemeanors Praying
I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Mistake Monday Morning
A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Courses Games Something Sports
As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Dropped Florida Kick MIssed Play Winning
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.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Dad Manner Respectful Smoking Supposed

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

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