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 BOWDENWe would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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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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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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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