Bobby Bowden Game Quotations

Mobile quarterbacks that can run and throw on the run have always given us fits. We picked the wrong time for the quarterback to have the best game I've ever seen him have.

I am Exhibition B. Joe is Exhibition A. That's all we are. There's a game in there somewhere -- Penn State and Florida State are playing.

He's going to have problems. He hasn't been on the field long enough in a game to know how to handle all the problems that can arrive. The only way he is going to get that is through experience.

He was sent home and will be suspended for this game for violating a team rule. That's all I will say about it.

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.

I was afraid he'd be a little tired, but he played the majority of the game (Monday night),

I was just hoping he was going to go out there and win the game for us,

Our quarterbacks had performed so well the week previous to this game in practice. Then you go in that ballgame and you look like a freshman, you know? So there's no doubt about it, now we've got to get them playing to their ability. ... And, of course, we'll try to blend our running game with it more.

Some guys practice pretty good and then they get in a game and they're a different person. These guys got talent. It's who can eliminate the error.

Like I told my kids, what a great game to build (upon) going into next year. I thought our kids played about as hard and about as good as we could. If we could have eliminated penalties I think we might have won the game.

We have to kind of redirect our goal - our goal now is to win our division. Forget everything else, men. Try to win this division and get into the (ACC) championship game and go from there.

We have to kind of redirect our goal - our goal now is to win our division, ... Forget everything else, men. Try to win this division and get into the (ACC) championship game and go from there.

Weatherford has really gained from the first game of the year until the 13th game of the year. I coached against Joe when I was up at West Virginia and I saw those teams that dominate Eastern football. This team is as good as any of them and he hung in there with them.

Weatherford has a long way to go before getting over the hump, ... This game will be another dimension, because this is his first game on the road. These quarterbacks (Weatherford and Xavier Lee) are going to be good one of these days. But for now, they lack experience.

We missed. They missed. We missed. They missed. But it was a great ballgame, again, a game in which nobody really should have lost that game but somebody has to lose.

This game will be another dimension that quarterbacks have to go through to become efficient. This is another test... and it's away from home.

They've been through what we've been through; we've been through it many times. I know exactly how it feels. ... We finally stole a game like they've been stealing them from us.

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.

I told my kids, what a great game that was to build going into next year. I think we're heading in the right direction.

I told them we got a ball game next week as big as this one. That's all you can do when you get beat.

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'll be up to the last week before the game before we will do it. As soon as we're sure, we'll make the move so the kids will get used to him. I'll have final say so. We'll do it when we are positive, though.

If we were 11-and-0, if you still can't win this darn game here, you don't even win the championship. So here we are 7-4, they're 10-1. It looks like you got no business being there with those guys. Yet whoever wins that game will be conference champion. That part of it is good for somebody like us.

If you had told me that we would have hold them to seven points, I would have told you that we would win. What our defense did in this game is amazing, especially the defensive line. A few weeks ago, we didn't know who would be playing up there.

I am an exhibit. Joe is exhibit A. There's a game somewhere. Penn State and Florida State are playing. We're just an exhibit.

I felt that was the worst game of penalties we've had, ... And it's not just the yards, it's what they nullified.

You can't think down the road like that. This is the game you have to win.

A.J. will be sent home and suspended from this ball game for violating a team rule and policy. That's about all I will say about it.