After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
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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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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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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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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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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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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