Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
BOBBY BOWDENCourage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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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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 learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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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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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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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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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