Quotes from Bobby Bowden

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

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.

All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.

I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

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

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.

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.

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.