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 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.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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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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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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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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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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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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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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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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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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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If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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