“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 get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character.”
― Coach Bobby Bowden
“I wasn't afraid of nothing. I was concerned that our opponents. Just picture now. We're trying to recruit this kid out of Tampa. OK, I go down and see him. An opponent coach comes there and says, 'Hey, you don't want to go to Florida State. Bobby Bowden's got cancer. He's 77 years old, he's not going to be alive next year.”
― Coach Bobby Bowden
“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.”
― Coach Bobby Bowden
“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.”
― Coach Bobby Bowden
“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.”
― Coach Bobby Bowden
“I don't know ... I might, in my sleep." (Bowden's response to FSU radio announcer Gene Deckerhoff when asked if he ever used Twitter.)”
― Coach Bobby Bowden
