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.
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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
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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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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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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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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’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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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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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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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