Bobby Bowden Football Quotations

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.

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.

I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

We let them express themselves. How would you like to approach this game? Just kinda fun . . . nothing like a quiz the day before the game.

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.

Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

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.

He would get my vote. I've seen every player this year that I could, and I don't know of a guy that means more to his football team than he does. He just does it week after week after week after week.

He has the ability to play in the NFL. If there are extenuating circumstances, I support a decision to enter the draft, but you can make more money by staying an extra year.

Joe and I both thought it was a great football game. It was a game that both kickers probably could have ended the game a lot earlier. We'd miss. They'd miss. We'd miss. They'd miss.

Tommy can play anybody good. It should be a good football game.

Both players are dismissed for conduct detrimental to the welfare of the football team.

The thing that's very important is the direction you're going. I think we're heading forward. It was hard to tell who the best team was, but they were a much more mature football team than we were.

The one thing that concerns me the most -- other than that they are good -- is that they are a mature football team.

It's a David vs. Goliath type of game. They are big and we are not. This game will definitely be won up front. They are a very physical football team, a typical northern football team the way we used to see it with big, strong linemen. And they're veterans. I hate to see that (experience) more than anything.

It should be a great ball game between the two programs, ... I grew up on Alabama football and have always wanted the chance to play against them. All of my early life was centered around the teams of Frank Thomas and Bear Bryant. I know their history well.

It's not a father-son (relationship) when it's on this football field, ... It's boss-employee.

The corners. That was the biggest question mark. There is no position in football more vital than corners. They determine how much blitzing you do.

The corners. That was the biggest question mark, ... There is no position in football more vital than corners. They determine how much blitzing you do.