Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
BOBBY BOWDENI 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.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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 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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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 short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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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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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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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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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