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.
BOBBY BOWDENSomehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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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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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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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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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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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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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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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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