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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

Bobby Bowden

He who gets the best players usually wins.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Player Sports Winning
A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Courses Games Something Sports
I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Mistake Monday Morning
Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Game Something Young
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

Boys College Football
Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Motivational Sports Teamwork
Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Coaches Country Game Happen Something
Discipline to me is sacrifice; it’s willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Game Giving Sacrifice Something Up
I’m praying for a misdemeanor
BOBBY BOWDEN

Misdemeanors Praying
The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Continue Mistakes Practice
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.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Dropped Else Mad People Use
I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
BOBBY BOWDEN

College Football Sports
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 BOWDEN

Country Game Happy New Something Year
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

Dropped Florida Kick MIssed Play Winning
I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Game Moral Something Victory
Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Game Going Hard Something Out Sportsmanship
After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
BOBBY BOWDEN

College Events Football
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Army Football Hair
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

Country Either Played Point Said
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.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Adversity Case Prepared Some Tough
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

Blood Desire Way
Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Hurt might Needs
If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Five Game Something
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

Championship MIssed National Point
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

Dad Manner Respectful Smoking Supposed
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.
BOBBY BOWDEN

Country Football Game Something Thinking

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