Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
BOBBY BOWDENThere 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.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
-
-
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
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.’
BOBBY BOWDEN -
Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
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 BOWDEN -
Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
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.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
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 BOWDEN -
We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
BOBBY BOWDEN -
He who gets the best players usually wins.
BOBBY BOWDEN