Bobby Bowden Quotations | Page 3

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

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

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.

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.