Bobby Bowden Quotes (165 Quotes)

There will be a day when I don't want to walk out on that field anymore. It all depends on if I'm healthy and if we're winning,

It'll be up to the last week before the game before we will do it. As soon as we're sure, we'll make the move so the kids will get used to him. I'll have final say so. We'll do it when we are positive, though.

I thought they had two dominating players out there, No. 26 and No. 81 tight end Kellen Winslow. I haven't seen a safety that good in a long time. He hits as well as he covers.

It's not fun because I'm going to hurt him if I beat him, and he's going to hurt me if he beats me. That part of it is not fun.

I just saw that this morning and I don't like it. Gee whiz, I don't know what it's saying. You gotta trust your athletic department. You gotta hire good people, then you gotta trust 'em. If they don't do the job you get somebody else. I don't know what in the world that means.

When you lose, fans are looking for something to point at, ... They'll call it nepotism, but half of them don't know how to spell it and the other half doesn't know what it means. They aren't looking at the film the next morning and seeing the blocking assignments missed and the routes not run right, or poor tackling. That's why you lose ballgames.

Seeing that made me more conscious of a man needing a motive to live.

In fact, he said, when about 70 percent of his players come from single-parent homes, or are reared by an extended family, it is his right and responsibility to be candid about his faith. You got 90 kids in a history or psychology classroom around here, and a professor can stand up and say anything he wants in creation, ... Why can't I tell my boys what I believe

I want them all to play, ... Every week I have one of them in the office. That's a good thing, if they can be patient.

They've always been a scary team to play. They've always been a real feisty, competitive team. They can beat anybody they play on a hot night.

It wasn't scaled down that much. We had it in there, we just might not have called it. But that's not the problem, it's the way we set the formations and try to move people around. That's the thing. Last night we called a reverse, and we called it to the wrong side. We did it against Miami run it the wrong way. And we lined up wrong a lot of times. That (learning new system) is harder than you think, playing as many people as we have. That comes with the territory.

I think him staying shows wisdom because it's not the thing to do nowadays because of public opinion. He just needs time and keep getting better and better and stay the course.

You'd like not to but it's just according to how much yardage you want to give up, ... When you start kicking away from somebody ... the yards instead of being a 40-yard end up a 26-yard punt (return). But we are prepared to do both.

I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

Can't you tell the difference between being a freshman and a sophomore with a year under his belt. He just threw very good (Friday).

To be honest with you, we better be thankful we're able to play freshmen. If we couldn't I don't know what we'd do.

We're going to start off just like a Monday night practice and we are going to treat it just like a regular week, like we would have during the season.

Jeffrey has handled it good and he's handled it better than I would've thought. Hey, there's nothing you can do about it. You can't win.

You can imagine what an opportunity it presents us. We're trying, and hoping, to get back. And the program will get back. Maybe it will be after I'm gone, but the program will get back.

I don't expect Joe to hang it up (retire), to be honest with you, ... He's still young at heart. He still seems to be in good health. I think this really rejuvenates him.

We just haven't gotten control of a doggone ballgame early enough to get him the work that I'd like to give him,

Every time Duke would grab the momentum, we would grab it right back with our offense.

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.

Joe's showing the world he can get it done, when nobody thought he could. That reminded me of the Penn State teams we used to see.

What Penn State has needed, evidently the last couple of years, is somebody who can break up a game.

We've been wanting to do it and he's been wanting to do it, so now is the time, ... He's been kind of non-existent this whole season out wide. We felt like the move to all that field would benefit him, but he has not been comfortable with it.

We're still in a chance to move up, ... ...We didn't lose as much ground as I thought we would.

I'm just kind of happy to be here, to be honest with you.

I don't consider that him . That was a reaction to the disease.

Xavier, bless his heart, was so nave. Going out there so confident to kick that field goal, wanting that opportunity, and then missing it -- that's got to shatter you, just shatter you.

Are these soccer fields I thought it was kinda wide.

It's amazing how close they've been. If just that one thing had happened good instead of bad, we'd win. That's just the way it is.

Most of those times they were better. The last three or four games that we've played, you take one play out and we win it. You're losing by a field goal.

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.

Fred will do three things wrong for every five plays he's in there, ... But when gets his hands on the ball, it's what he can do with the ball. That's why you play him.

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

The better the competition, the better you can evaluate them.

Last year, we went to Aruba, ... Next year, I think they take us to Mexico. We spend a little more time talking when we're together on that (cruise).

Tommy just blew us out today. I'm real proud of him, but that doesn't help me.

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.

I refuse to back down. Who can you trust more than your family

I think it's worth it. We can't afford to be missing an opportunity to play on national television on a Monday night.

I really felt Boston College would bring this kind of credibility to our conference.

What (Penn State) has needed over the last couple years is someone who could break out a game. Now they've got that.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

Antonio is an outstanding athlete and there is no doubt that he has the ability to play in the NFL.

I keep saying they're both No. 1, ... You all (media) can see as good as I can as to what is happening out here.

And it's pretty good if you block it. If you block effectively, it's all pretty good. If you don't block, I don't care what you do it's not going to look good.

I played in a lot of bizarre games, especially when it comes to missing field goal. I think when they pick the all-time missed-field goals coach I'll probably win that award. That is weird but we're masters at that.

Mobile quarterbacks that can run and throw on the run have always given us fits. We picked the wrong time for the quarterback to have the best game I've ever seen him have.