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 BOWDENSomehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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 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 BOWDENWhen I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don’t know. It’s in my blood.
BOBBY BOWDENI’m praying for a misdemeanor
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 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 BOWDENSomething has to happen that you can’t coach.
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 BOWDENIf short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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 BOWDENI’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.
BOBBY BOWDENIf their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
BOBBY BOWDENAfter you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
BOBBY BOWDEN