There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

- Bobby Bowden

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…

- Bobby Bowden

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

- Bobby Bowden

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.

- Bobby Bowden

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

- Bobby Bowden

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

- Bobby Bowden

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

- Bobby Bowden

I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.

- Bobby Bowden

I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't g…

- Bobby Bowden