I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
BOBBY BOWDENI am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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.
BOBBY BOWDENWhen I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don’t know. It’s in my blood.
BOBBY BOWDENTo 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 BOWDENCourage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
BOBBY BOWDENHe who gets the best players usually wins.
BOBBY BOWDENI’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.
BOBBY BOWDENA better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
BOBBY BOWDENAs good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.
BOBBY BOWDENThere 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 BOWDENThat’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 BOWDENIf their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
BOBBY BOWDENDon’t go to the grave with life unused.
BOBBY BOWDENThat 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 BOWDENWe would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship.
BOBBY BOWDENDiscipline to me is sacrifice; it’s willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
BOBBY BOWDEN