Bobby Bowden Quotes

If I continue to work as a coach, it is because my passion and love for football, for the players, is still there.

All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

Basketball to me is more than a passion or a paycheck - it is the tool I use to try to have an impact in the world.

Obviously I love coaching. It's what I've done my whole life.

I don't think anybody that coaches ever fully quits.

I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.

You must have a passion to coach.

Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

Three coaches at Notre Dame made a big difference in my life, not that I played any football when I attended Notre Dame. But Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, and Lou Holtz - they all made a difference to me, and I respected them for their attitudes about life and how they handled loss.

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

I am there for the athletes I coach.

I can't just look at my position as a job. It's my passion.

All the way through the youth ranks at Sao Paulo, I've always been the captain.

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be working in a chippy. Cricket can change your life. It can teach you a lot about discipline and life in general.

I mean, as a coach, as a leader of an organization, you represent your fan base and everybody that works and all that, and that's passion.

I'm sorry, but until my last day as a coach, I will try to play from my goalkeeper.

At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.

I will miss the ladies and the passion of the Sun fans. I was proud to serve as their head coach.