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.
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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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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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 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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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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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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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 guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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