Quotes by Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden

American football coach

Lived from: 1929 -

Category: Athletes

Born: 8 november 1929

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  • A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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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.
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  • All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Bobby Bowden?

The two most famous quotes from Bobby Bowden are:

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

When did Bobby Bowden live?

Bobby Bowden is still alive and was born in 1929.