Bobby Bowden
Bobby Bowden
Robert Cleckler Bowdenis a retired American football coach. He coached the Florida State Seminoles football team from the 1976 to 2009 seasons. During his time at Florida State, Bowden led FSU to an Associated Press and Coaches Poll National Title in 1993 and a BCS National Championship in 1999, as well as twelve Atlantic Coast Conference championships since FSU joined the conference in 1991. After a difficult 2009 season and amid questioning fans, Bowden stepped down, just weeks after his...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth8 November 1929
CityBirmingham, AL
CountryUnited States of America
Whether you have 3-4 or 4-3, it's still seven. It's a very flexible defense. One you can really adjust well.
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.
There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.
Something has to happen that you can't coach.
Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.
A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them. We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship. I didn’t want to play them, either, but I had to play them. That’s why I said, When I die, They’ll say, ‘At least he played Miami.
If their IQ's where five points lower they'd be geraniums.
Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.
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.
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.
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.