415 Quotes by Bobby Bowden

I've never seen a quarterback beat us with a one-man show. The last time that happened to us was Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl--J.C. Watts. Watts did it in about 30 minutes. This guy did it the whole game.

I'm surprised that we've gotten as far as we have, especially looking at it from the first of the season,

I’m praying for a misdemeanor

Our penalties continually punished us and continually took away good play after good play that could have won the game. We're not good enough to do that. Some people might could. We might have done (so) in the past. We've got to eliminate the penalties.

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.

I'm not sure what that is. I don't know what you're talking about. I better look that one up.

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

Out of all of them, he would have been the least one we expected to do what he was doing. We didn't know how he could play like he's playing right now.

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.