Discipline to me is sacrifice; it’s willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
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.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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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 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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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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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