We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship.
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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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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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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.
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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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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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If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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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.
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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.
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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