Zitat des Tages von Bobby Bowden:
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
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.
A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.
Don't go to the grave with life unused.
He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.
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.
If somebody mistreats you, treat 'em good. That kills 'em.
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.
Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.
A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
