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 BOWDENI 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.’
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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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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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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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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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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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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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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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