Bobby Bowden Quotes

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

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.

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

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

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

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

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.

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.

Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.

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

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

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

He who gets the best players usually wins.

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

If their IQ's where five points lower they'd be geraniums.

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

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

I’m praying for a misdemeanor

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

Something has to happen that you can't coach.

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

Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.

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.

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.