Bobby Bowden Coaches Quotations

I haven't talked to my coaches about it or looked at it (on film), but we probably got on him and frustrated him. So, there's a lot of learning there that has to be done.

It sure doesn't look like you'll see coaches stay at one place for a long time ever again. Administrators at some of the schools are getting jittery and at a drop of a hat will make a change. Times have changed so much that if you're not careful, it ain't as much fun anymore.

The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.

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.

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.

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.

I hope the big thing they take is that they coach by the rules and don't take any shortcuts, ... We need good coaches - good people to be coaching. They have such an influence on these kids. A lot of them don't have the home life, the structure they would like to have.

Something has to happen that you can't coach.

I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.