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 BOWDENCourage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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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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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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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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Discipline to me is sacrifice; it’s willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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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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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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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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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 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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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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