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 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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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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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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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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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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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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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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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