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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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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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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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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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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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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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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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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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If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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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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