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 BOWDENAfter you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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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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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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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 learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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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After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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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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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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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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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