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.
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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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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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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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 used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them.
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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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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 learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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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Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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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 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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