Bobby Bowden Win Quotations

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

We wanted to win our way in, but we didn't do it.

Most of those times they were better. The last three or four games that we've played, you take one play out and we win it. You're losing by a field goal.

I was just hoping he was going to go out there and win the game for us,

It feels like you backed in instead of knocked your way in, ... We wanted to win our way in.

You ain't going to win 10 games every year. We've already done the impossible. You think anybody will ever do again what we did, 14 years in a row (ending the season ranked in the) top five? You think anybody will do that again? ... Everybody expects that every year and gosh, it just don't work that way.

We have to kind of redirect our goal - our goal now is to win our division. Forget everything else, men. Try to win this division and get into the (ACC) championship game and go from there.

We have to kind of redirect our goal - our goal now is to win our division, ... Forget everything else, men. Try to win this division and get into the (ACC) championship game and go from there.

You know, we wanted to win our way into it and didn't do it.

We will keep the same goals and those are to win the ACC and compete for a national championship.

The big task was getting everybody back. Did you win that battle? You try to make sure everybody is back and ready to play.

They're just like us - get one more touchdown and you win all your games. ... It's not like either one of us has been blown out.

If we were 11-and-0, if you still can't win this darn game here, you don't even win the championship. So here we are 7-4, they're 10-1. It looks like you got no business being there with those guys. Yet whoever wins that game will be conference champion. That part of it is good for somebody like us.

I promise you I will, ... We finally stole one from them after they've been stealing from us. ... This win will really help us. They've seen what we've been through.

I played in a lot of bizarre games, especially when it comes to missing field goal. I think when they pick the all-time missed-field goals coach I'll probably win that award. That is weird but we're masters at that.

For the first time in awhile, I thought the offense enabled us to win a ball game. They really came through for us today.

All I know is they have done what they've had to do to win. The first week was very grueling because you played two games in one week, and we came out there. Then this ballgame here, you go away from home with a rookie quarterback, and you wonder how is he going to respond to the crowd, and how is the team going to respond to the crowd. You win that ballgame and, of course, that is the main stat you want, that win. So you just say, up to this point, so far, so good. We know we've got to get better because the people we are playing are going to get better.

The elite is sitting up there with no losses, ... Then you got the good guys. We just got thrown down with the good guys. Now we just got to win games and go from there.