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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Misdemeanors
Praying
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Don't go to the grave with life unused.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Motivational
Sports
Teamwork
Grave
Unused
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Sports
Player
Winning
Gets
Wins
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Something has to happen that you can't coach.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Coaches
Happens
Nfl
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I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Sports
College
Football
Someday
Retire
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I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Proud
Too Much
Winning
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If somebody mistreats you, treat’em good. That kills’em.
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Sports
Ems
Nfl
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If somebody mistreats you, treat 'em good. That kills 'em.
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Treat
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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Mistake
Nfl
Practice
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If their IQ's where five points lower they'd be geraniums.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Five
Ifs
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Morning
Mistake
Monday
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There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Halos
Inches
Nfl
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The heck with political correctness. I've never believed in it.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Correctness
Political Correctness
Heck
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Moral
Nfl
Victory
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Hurt
Might
Needs
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Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Retired
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Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
College
Football
Son
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After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
College
Events
Football
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Going Out
Hard
Sportsmanship
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All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Football Field
All My Life
Life Football My Life
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I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Dependence
Priorities
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I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
God Believe Me
God Believe Long
Coach
Stayed
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I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Coaches
Sidelines
Standing
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Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Jobs
Honesty
Integrity
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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Sports
Courses
Nfl
Course
Won
Ending
Scripted
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A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Be A Man
Discipline
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Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Has Beens
Nfl
Young
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He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Words
Then
Again
Word
Meaning
Meaning Of
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The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Coaches
Grind
Tired
Drives
Recruiting
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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 / Football Coach
Blood
Desire
Way
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I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Camaraderie
Coaches
Boy
Miss
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Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Giving Up
Nfl
Sacrifice
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If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Army
Football
Hair
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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.
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Intelligence
Boys
College
Football
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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 / Football Coach
Life Always Football
Big Part
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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 / Football Coach
Happy
New Year
New Year's
Want
Years
Coach
Explain
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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 / Football Coach
Football
Nfl
Thinking
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During my last days at Florida State, 65 to 70 percent of my boys did not have a daddy at home. They're raised by mommas. Thank God for them mommas, or grandmommas. Or big sister or aunt.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Aunt
Daddy
Florida
Thank God
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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 / Football Coach
Character
Hurt
Vocabulary
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Do I think God is going to win football games? Oh no. I never prayed to God to help us win a game. I would pray for the safety of the players. I would pray that they would do their best. I think God will answer that.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Safety
Pray
Football Games
Pray For
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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 / Football Coach
Cancer
Coaches
Every Man
Prostate
Fired
Saying
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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 / Football Coach
Jobs
Men
Nfl
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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 / Football Coach
Adversity
Brilliant
Character
Prepared
Successful
Life Always Character
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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 / Football Coach
Bible
Coaches
Principles
Winner
Cuss
Rear
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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 Coach
Hard Times
Rope
Rough
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I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Sister
Dad
Home
Mom
Alcohol
Godly
Respectful
Smoking
Mom Home Dad
Represent
Home Dad Mom
Manner
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The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Bible
Football Team
Parent
Twice
Gong
Pretty Good
Signed
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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.
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Faith
Coaches
Coaching
Football
Games
Hard Times
Left
Said
God Faith Strength
Greatest
Win
Times
Football Games
Greatest Strength
Helped
Important Thing
Put
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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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.'
Bobby Bowden / Football Coach
Florida
Play
Winning
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