The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
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.
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.
Don't go to the grave with life unused.
I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.
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.
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.
I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.
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.
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.'
If somebody mistreats you, treat’em good. That kills’em.
Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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.
He who gets the best players usually wins.
There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.
If their IQ's where five points lower they'd be geraniums.
I’m praying for a misdemeanor
After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.
I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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.
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.
I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.
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