I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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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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If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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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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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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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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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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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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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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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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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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