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 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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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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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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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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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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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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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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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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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 guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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