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.

I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.

I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.

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

If their IQ's where five points lower they'd be geraniums.

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.

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.