415 Quotes by Bobby Bowden

When they pick the all-time missed field-goal coach, I'll probably get the award. We're masters at that.

The best hit of the day came from the offense.

We lost our best offensive linemen and moved a center to guard and then lost him, too, ... It affects you. It affects everybody. You can have all the skill players in the world, but if you don't have linemen who can block, you're not going to get it done.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

(Tuesday) was a day I needed to find that out.

He was electrifying to me. He's exciting. He excites people around him, and he tried to get people excited around him. That's what you try to get your seniors to do. Some of them do it, but they do it in a quieter way. But this guy, he can't hold back.

The bad news is you've got to be in midseason form to compete against the people you're playing,

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.

You can't. But I know this: Joe's teams block and tackle.