Bobby Bowden Trying Quotations

If your team is playing aggressive, going after that ball, trying to get after it until the whistle blows, then occasionally a guy is going to overdo it, and you're are going to get a penalty.

I didn't think that our other tailbacks were running very well. I felt like they were dancing too much and trying to pick their way through the line too much. We were determined to get him in the ballgame more, and we felt like we would be able to. He responded.

We've come out trying to run the ball. The second ballgame (against I-AA the Citadel), we came out throwing because we thought we were superior and we could do what we wanted to. Now, when you're playing Syracuse and you're playing Miami and you're playing Boston College, you better do what's best. I felt like sooner or later, we're going to have to come out throwing the darn ball, and that's what our offensive staff wanted to do.

We've come out trying to run the ball, ... The second ballgame (against I-AA the Citadel), we came out throwing because we thought we were superior and we could do what we wanted to. Now, when you're playing Syracuse and you're playing Miami and you're playing Boston College, you better do what's best. I felt like sooner or later, we're going to have to come out throwing the darn ball, and that's what our offensive staff wanted to do.

It makes you excited about what's happening. We're trying to get that mystique back, that's what I talk to my kids about. What these young guys might mean is (we're) beginning to get that quality back that helped you dominated during the '90s.

I always felt like this is good for him. When I was a coach at West Virginia they were trying to run me off. They wanted to fire me. I went through all that 'bye-bye Bobby' stuff, all that moving-van-in-the-front-yard stuff.