After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
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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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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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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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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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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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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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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