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 BOWDENAs good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.
BOBBY BOWDENI am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
BOBBY BOWDENI learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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.’
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.
BOBBY BOWDENI’m praying for a misdemeanor
BOBBY BOWDENThere 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 BOWDENThat’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 BOWDENHe who gets the best players usually wins.
BOBBY BOWDENDon’t go to the grave with life unused.
BOBBY BOWDENThat 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 BOWDENTo 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 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 BOWDENThe greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
BOBBY BOWDENSomehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
BOBBY BOWDENA better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
BOBBY BOWDEN