If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
BOBBY BOWDENAs good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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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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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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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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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’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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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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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After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.
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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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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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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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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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