Bobby Bowden

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when…

— Bobby Bowden

I’m praying for a misdemeanor

— Bobby Bowden

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

— Bobby Bowden

I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to…

— Bobby Bowden

The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking…

— Bobby Bowden

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

— Bobby Bowden

As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed…

— Bobby Bowden

A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.

— Bobby Bowden

If somebody mistreats you, treat ?em good. That kills ?em.

— Bobby Bowden

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

— Bobby Bowden

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

— Bobby Bowden

I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than…

— Bobby Bowden

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

— Bobby Bowden

There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

— Bobby Bowden

I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.

— Bobby Bowden

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

— Bobby Bowden

He who gets the best players usually wins.

— Bobby Bowden

The heck with political correctness. I've never believed in it.

— Bobby Bowden

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

— Bobby Bowden

Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.

— Bobby Bowden

I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.

— Bobby Bowden

Do I think God is going to win football games? Oh no. I never prayed to God to help us win a…

— Bobby Bowden

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have…

— Bobby Bowden