Bobby Bowden Quotes

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

He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I’m afraid I’d wilt on the vine, too.

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

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

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.

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.

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

He who gets the best players usually wins.

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 to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them. We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship. 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.’

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

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.