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

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

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

I’m praying for a misdemeanor

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

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.

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.