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Top 25 Bobby Bowden Quotes (2025 Update)

Bobby Bowden Quote: “The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.”

1. “The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “Discipline to me is sacrifice; it’s willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.”

2. “Discipline to me is sacrifice; it’s willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “Don’t go to the grave with life unused.”

3. “Don’t go to the grave with life unused.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “I’m not too proud to change. I like to win too much.”

4. “I’m not too proud to change. I like to win too much.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “People that are brilliant and successful, we think they’ve just always been that way. That’s not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It’s prepared them. I’ve never felt like you could develop character without adversity.”

5. “People that are brilliant and successful, we think they’ve just always been that way. That’s not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It’s prepared them. I’ve never felt like you could develop character without adversity.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “Integrity makes my job easier. It’s deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.”

6. “Integrity makes my job easier. It’s deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.”

7. “I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “There’s only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.”

8. “There’s only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “I’ve always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you’re fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.”

9. “I’ve always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you’re fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “I’m praying for a misdemeanor.”

10. “I’m praying for a misdemeanor.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.”

11. “I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “I learned a long time ago that you don’t have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won’t get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character.”

12. “I learned a long time ago that you don’t have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won’t get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.”

13. “A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “He who gets the best players usually wins.”

14. “He who gets the best players usually wins.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “I suppose I’m like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.”

15. “I suppose I’m like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.”

16. “I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don’t know. It’s in my blood.”

17. “When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don’t know. It’s in my blood.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “That boy don’t know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don’t know the meaning of a lot of words.”

18. “That boy don’t know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don’t know the meaning of a lot of words.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “Son, you’ve got a good engine, but your hands aren’t on the steering wheel.”

19. “Son, you’ve got a good engine, but your hands aren’t on the steering wheel.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.”

20. “If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I’m afraid I’d wilt on the vine, too.”

21. “He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I’m afraid I’d wilt on the vine, too.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “Something has to happen that you can’t coach.”

22. “Something has to happen that you can’t coach.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.”

23. “Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.”

24. “If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.”

25. “Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.”

— Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden Quote: “Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.”

26. “Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.”

— Bobby Bowden

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