Bobby Bowden Quotes

If they hadn't scored, we would've won.

When you win or lose, no-one dies: you win, or you lose.

If you win, you're heroes. But if you don't, then you're losers. That might sound harsh, but that's the way it is.

Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.

What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

The basic fact is that we won and he lost.

I obviously understand how to lose but always want to win.

I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in.

Maybe during the last sprint, sometimes you can lose, sometimes you can gain.

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

When we lost, I couldn't sleep at night. When we win, I can't sleep at night. But, when you win, you wake up feeling better.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.

The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

Victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.