Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
BOBBY BOWDENI am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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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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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 am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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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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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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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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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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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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