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 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 am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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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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If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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’m praying for a misdemeanor
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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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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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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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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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