Bobby Bowden Quotes

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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…
• Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.
• Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.
• After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.
• I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.
• 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…
• I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
• The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
• If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
• I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.
• Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
• 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.
• As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.  I used…
• I’m praying for a misdemeanor
• If somebody mistreats you, treat ?em good. That kills ?em.
• Don't go to the grave with life unused.
• I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church.…
• Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really…
• I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.
• Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.

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