Bobby Bowden Great Quotations

I wish he could have got by without that, but I guess that was asking too much. I thought it was a great call. They had the goal line defense in there and our defense played in real good.

The fact is, you just can't be great every year. It just don't work that way. I think it kind of goes in cycles.

Now if you go out and recruit a great, great group but you didn't take care of your needs, it could cost you.

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.

He's got tools. He's fast, tall, rangy, great desire, great human being.

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.

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.

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.

Their kid did a great job. He's going to be a great one.

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.

Joe Paterno, to me, is maybe the greatest coach ever in my opinion. I mean that truly, and I said that 10 years ago.

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.

We don't have many seniors, but you know it only takes one great leader. We've got some juniors who will lead and some sophomores who will lead, too.