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There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose. -- Bobby Bowden
I'm praying for a misdemeanor -- 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 anything I can think of in football. -- 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 had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity. -- Bobby Bowden
Don't go to the grave with life unused. -- Bobby Bowden
I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that. -- Bobby Bowden
There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough. -- Bobby Bowden
Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling. -- 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
I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much. -- Bobby Bowden
The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting. -- Bobby Bowden
Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt. -- 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 you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character. -- Bobby Bowden
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 ever wanted to do. -- Bobby Bowden
He who gets the best players usually wins. -- Bobby Bowden
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. -- 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 show how macho you are. That stuff won't get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character. -- 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
I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question. -- Bobby Bowden
Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort. -- Bobby Bowden
A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better. -- Bobby Bowden
Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel. -- Bobby Bowden
Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules. -- Bobby Bowden
After you retire, there's only one big event left ... and I ain't ready for that. -- Bobby Bowden
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. -- Bobby Bowden
You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that. -- Bobby Bowden
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. -- Bobby Bowden
I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long. -- 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
All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else. -- Bobby Bowden
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 Bowden
I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten. -- Bobby Bowden
If their IQ's where five points lower they'd be geraniums. -- Bobby Bowden
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. -- Bobby Bowden
I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long. -- Bobby Bowden
I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God. -- Bobby Bowden