Bobby Bowden Quotes (165 Quotes)


    They've been through what we've been through we've been through it many times. I know exactly how it feels. ... We finally stole a game like they've been stealing them from us.

    I felt like that guy was breaking out of there and probably taking four and five, I don't know, maybe six seconds to get the ball off, ... You can't cover people that long.

    We haven't been able to do that in a long time. We haven't done that in five years, I think. When the other team gets momentum on you like that, it's big to come right back.

    Sometimes you miss at the wrong time. Joe was having that problem for a while.

    You can't take anybody lightly now. You're just asking for trouble.


    Time will tell. It should help our confidence. Next week we'll be playing a team we should be favored over (I-AA The Citadel). You expect your confidence level grows because we haven't had it lately. We haven't had it the last five years.

    You ain't going to win 10 games every year. We've already done the impossible. You think anybody will ever do again what we did, 14 years in a row (ending the season ranked in the) top five You think anybody will do that again ... Everybody expects that every year and gosh, it just don't work that way.

    He's got tools. He's fast, tall, rangy, great desire, great human being.

    Now, they know how we feel. We finally stole one from them like they have been stealing from us. (Last night) was our time.

    There is no doubt they are much better prepared for the season than any other freshmen coming in the summertime.

    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.

    We will keep the same goals and those are to win the ACC and compete for a national championship.

    Joe and I both thought it was a great football game. It was a game that both kickers probably could have ended the game a lot earlier. We'd miss. They'd miss. We'd miss. They'd miss.

    Alabama looks like the old Alabama to me now, ... I hope we haven't bitten off more than we can chew.

    I bet a lot of the people down here thought the same thing. But I can't do that. I'm sure he couldn't do that, either.


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