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.
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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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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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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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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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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If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
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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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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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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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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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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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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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