Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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.
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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I’ve always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you’re fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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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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When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don’t know. It’s in my blood.
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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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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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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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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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