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.
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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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.’
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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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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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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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After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
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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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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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 short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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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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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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