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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.

Bobby Bowden

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 BOWDEN

Adversity Case Prepared Some Tough
I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
BOBBY BOWDEN

College Football Sports
As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Dropped Florida Kick MIssed Play Winning
I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Mistake Monday Morning
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 BOWDEN

Boys College Football
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.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Dad Manner Respectful Smoking Supposed
I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Game Moral Something Victory
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.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Game Happy New Something Year
A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Courses Games Something Sports
After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
BOBBY BOWDEN

College Events Football
I’m praying for a misdemeanor
BOBBY BOWDEN

Misdemeanors Praying
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 BOWDEN

Country Dropped Else Mad People Use
Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Coaches Country Game Happen Something
The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Continue Mistakes Practice
He who gets the best players usually wins.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Player Sports Winning
Discipline to me is sacrifice; it’s willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Game Giving Sacrifice Something Up

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