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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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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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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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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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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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 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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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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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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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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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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