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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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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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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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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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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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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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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 guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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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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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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