When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.

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.

Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.

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

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.