I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
BOBBY BOWDENIf short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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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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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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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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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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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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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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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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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