Bobby Bowden Quotes

I can't stand USC. They get such media attention.

I still want to see the Lin-Lee rivalry; those games always bring great fun for the fans.

When you play a great team like the Patriots, you can only kick so many field goals and stay in the game.

This is the Boston Celtics. This isn't the Phoenix Suns. No disrespect to any other organization, but you don't hang conference titles. Do we hang going to the conference finals?

I won my first nationals when I was 10 years old.

It's not as if I dislike Michigan. I have a lot of respect for the university - not only the athletic department but how they educate young people. The only reason I dislike them is because they are the No. 1 rival for OSU.

I'll tell you, people remember every single pick I make against their team, they really do. There's just so much passion in college football, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Playing for the Wolverines, you have to prepare each and every day to beat Ohio State. If you do that, you're going to win a fair share of your games.

That happens on a cricket field. People have a go at each other. That's fair, that's fine. It's called Test cricket. It's not a day in the park.

Back home, the Iron Bowl isn't just a football game, it's a phenomenon.

We want to beat the best team in the world.

Once you touch that grass, you know in your head only one team is going to walk out of there with a win.

When you start using terms like national championship and playoffs, that's very rare air.

I like every competition I can play.

Game days are a lot of fun, especially when you win.

People wonder why I dislike my opponents. It's not personal or that I hate them: it's just that I know what I've had to sacrifice to face them.

There are a lot of great players that never got a chance to play for a national championship. And I got a chance to play for two.

The 1973 team is real special. I had never coached against Bear Bryant. Alabama had never played Notre Dame. It was North against South; the Catholics against the Baptists; both teams were undefeated, and everything was on the line.

I wanted to win an SEC championship and a national championship. Those are the main goals.

I just like to think of everyone as a happy family but in football that just doesn't exist.

I wasn't a big Sam Darnold fan after they beat us in the Rose Bowl game my sophomore year, but that's just a competitive thing. We joke around about that all the time. I got to know him a little more.

I just try to make sure that when I get there on the floor, I play as hard as I can and try to do everything I can to help the team win.

I always beat Jankovic so who do you think I want to play?

You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.