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 BOWDENThe greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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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After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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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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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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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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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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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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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