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.
BOBBY BOWDENDiscipline to me is sacrifice; it’s willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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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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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 am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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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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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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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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After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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’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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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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