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.
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.
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.
I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.
The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
I don't mind, as long as y'all don't send me a bill.
It's a David vs. Goliath type of game. They are big and we are not. This game will definitely be won up front. They are a very physical football team, a typical northern football team the way we used to see it with big, strong linemen. And they're veterans. I hate to see that (experience) more than anything.
This game will be another dimension that quarterbacks have to go through to become efficient. This is another test... and it's away from home.
They did what you expect freshmen to do. They needed some confidence. They needed something good to happen but it didn't,
I thought our kids played about as hard and about as good as we could. If we could have eliminated penalties I think we might have won the game. I don't know how many holding penalties we got in the red zone. It seemed like every time we got to the red zone there was a holding penalty, even in the playoff in the end. We were our own worst enemy in that regard.
They've seen what we've been through. I've been there many times. I know exactly how they feel.