Bobby Bowden's Speech at Senior Life

he says what they asked him what will your legacy be and his exact response was that I lived for God thank you for teaching this guy what life is about real quick a funny story some of you played golf today others tried but anyway he was out playing golf one day in South Florida and a buddy of mine was with him and taking him around on the cart and everything and all of a sudden this cart comes by big wheels all decked out you know the whole radio thing and all of a sudden the cart just turned around and came back and then all of a sudden Michael Jordan stepped out of the cart this is no lying he goes that's coach Bowden Michael Jordan stopped his golf game to get a picture with coach Bobby Bowden that's the type of man that Bobby Bowden is I'm gonna have you come I am done coach the stage is yours and thank you for being you thank you very much body got that story backwards that was me that drove by and I saw him this is not what I expected I thought I was speaking tonight to it just an FCA group which I've done hundreds of times and it's very easy then I get here and I find out it's not just FCA it's your organization as well but that doesn't make a difference I'll have to change some of my talk from FCA to God that that's my favorite subject anyway my wife and I live in Tallahassee Florida that's only about 30 miles from here down south and they always get this point across if you're going to Tallahassee if you come in from the West Pensacola Panama City tella has a Florida if you're coming in from the West you have to go through a little town called Quincy now what you have to realize you have to go right down through the middle of town or Quincy and they have a traffic camera up there right downtown right about a square and if you go through there and you go over 35 miles an hour you're gonna get you're gonna be thinking we hit you with a pretty good fine you know what so about a month ago I was driving back from Panama City and came to Quincy I knew the camera was up there and as I approached it it snapped my picture I saw it I saw it flashed I said now hold it I'm going 34 miles an hour and that thing took my picture you know I I suggest that gum rip off you know so I circled again cut it down to 30 click click I went around five times I cut it down that I cut it down five degrees every dead come time I went around it it took my picture five times I got out of my car I pointed my finger up at that camera but I knew it was getting me I said I ain't gonna pay y'all at that gun penny this this is a ripoff I did not break the speed limit you know then I jumped in my car went back to Tallahassee two weeks later I get a letter from the sheriff's office over in Quincy I got five tickets for not wearing a seat belt [Applause] but I just I just wanted to warn him my wife and I are from Birmingham Alabama I've coached at Florida State for a coach there for 34 years I've been out of coaching now for about nine nine years you know and and I had six children we had two at us we had a daughter four sons and then another daughter now we got 21 grandchildren and we got nine great-grandchildren you know and but you know when I was in and our raised up in Birmingham I was raised during the Depression I bet none of our I got to be the oldest Scott I got to be the oldest guy in here I turned in nine in them but in a month [Applause] but it but but but anyway living living there so long when I was a tote I was raised during oppression that's the third is I was born in 29 it was during the 30s where the Depression one out of three men lost their job and that was happening all over the world not just the United States and my granddad whose wife had died and was probably about 70 years old he lost his job because job mother said he went to the bank to get his money and the bank was bankrupt so he lost everything he had well back in those days what they do they move in with family nowadays it's assisted living but we didn't have that back now back in the thirties you know and so granddaddy moved in with us and in my room we had two bits granddaddy slipped in that bed and I slept this bed then later on my uncle lost his job he moved in with us he had two boys about my age they slept with me ready they slept there and me and those two boys slept here I really never slept alone I got married [Applause] you know y'all been through that and yeah y'all been through that but my wife and and she used to always acute when we when I when I was coaching every year and Bobby you love football more you do me you ever heard that from your wife you love football more to do me I said colleagues are pro one more one more story y'all remember Burt Reynolds Burt was a good friend of mine Burt played at Florida State University I didn't play with him I didn't coach him he was here before I came Burt the first year played a lot of football for Florida State then he had a knee injury and had to drop out and then he tried to repair it back in those days they couldn't do a good job like they do today and he tried to come back the next year and hurt him again so he was out and of course then he went to New York studied acting and went into Hollywood you know it made his fame there Berndt loved to come down and watch Florida State play every year our coach he would call me a coach I'm coming down to see the ballgame Saturday about once once a year he'd come in Tallahassee flying the Tallahassee come by my office we'd go sit in my office lock the door and then he and I'd shoot the bull watch you when you saw him in a movie that's him I mean he was just like he was just like he acted boy he loved life and he had that he loved to have a good time and so anyway Burt called me in 1982 we were going to a bowl game it was probably about December which means we had about a month month to get ready for that game he called me one night coach bowed this is retro yeah Burt how you doing we shot the bull bit then he said coach I don't like our uniforms I said I don't like him either let's get some more I said burns they cost too much money we get it we add about 20th power a year and just keep playing in the same uniforms yeah I'm Hewitt fee if we if we got in your uniforms for the whole team we have to buy hundred and thirty bear that cost a lot of money I'll bomb oh you will so I went to see our athletic director Ken an alumni pay for our uniform force yeah it's okay so I called Bert back so we we bought 150 pair of brand new year for us fact he and I designed the gold pants the garnet jersey the gold helmet with a spear on it you know and that's the uniform we played for years now go to 1988 same deal we're fixed to play in a bowl game December got about three or four weeks of practice get that phone call hey coach let's get some new uniforms I said Bert bit last week I like the ones we got everybody else likes on you know he said well let's get some white uniforms now he wanted white why because that's what they wore when he played you know so okay you buy them right yeah okay so we bought 130 pair of white uniforms and we wore them for a couple of games you know we'd be kind of mix-up in any way right now we go to about nine 2006 2006 we're fixed we're fixin to play Alabama in Jacksonville Florida and Bert calls me again he asked us to uniform I hate birds we don't need need uniforms man we got white we got black we got garnet we got gold we can mix everything you we don't need me in your uniforms he said I want to get the boys something what can I get I want to get them something they want more than anything I'm gonna send you fifty thousand dollars and whatever the boys wrong with you get it for that's okay so he's since fifty thousand dollars then that Saturday roads around we're in Jacksonville he flies into Jack's comes by my office my room and we've said and talked a little bit and he's excited about what he got what he would do is come down and watch and see what he got him you know he didn't watch the boys so so when it was time to go out and warm up I take him with me with good at along as I took him in the middle of field he's okay I let him outside that fence baby hang on he can be signed two autographs all day long so I had him inside oh no Phil we went out on the field and he was sitting there observing our boys when they would run by it's a new helps you get new helmets for more no the other same one we've had Bert the other guy comes back oh we got brand new got those new pants you gotta know those same ones we've always had how about that go we'll help but it did is that what I got a no no that's so well what did you get them I told you to get them whatever they needed the most I said I did I gave it to the officials [Applause] as I mentioned to you earlier I've got to change my talk from what I had planned till I had plan to talk just FCA but that wouldn't be hitting everybody so I'm gonna tell your story would would you mind me telling you a story of how God answered my prayer I'm gonna tell you a story of how God answered my prayer when I was 13 years of age I got rheumatic fever I had to go to bed I stayed been a year I had to drop out of school couldn't go to school couldn't lift anything heavy because it was a heart disease and back in those days they thought about 40 or 45 years of ages about the lifespan of rheumatic fever and so I remember sitting on my bed when one day my mother walked in the room and and mother was a Christian woman and she said Bobby do you believe in prayer I said yeah mom I believe in prayer she said why don't you ask God to heal you you know and I had probably already asked him about 50 times you know but I said mom I have I've asked God to heal me and I had I have made this property God if you will heal me I'll spend all of my life trying to serve you not knowing how but trying to serve you two years later I go to a heart specialist he says hey coach Bowden Earhart's okay it's got some scar tissue but it's it's strong if you want to play ball you play ball oh boy I went out for my high school team there and maybe then ended up starting the last two years graduated went to the University of Alabama and when I went to Alabama they had a route back in those days this for y'all's time but all over the country they had a rule if you were married you can't have a scholarship that was pretty common well I got married you know as a freshman and bowed and I had been dating her for two years and and she was already 16 yeah oh yeah oh yeah it was time it was time you know so she and I she and I ran off and got married now that was 70 years ago by the way and same woman 70 years you know but but anyway I had to give up my scholarship because I was married so I transferred went up to school if it Sam Howard college which is now Sanford University played up there for four years Renne track played baseball and ran and play and play football but while I was playing baseball at Florida at said Sanford it was my last year I was a senior it was 19 1950 to 1952 that's the year I graduated my last year of football and I had never hit a home run I'd hit him when I was a little younger the little leagues but since I got to college I couldn't get went over the dadgum fence I couldn't hit a ball up my balls what about that high you know and every nine and it would go through and I'd get a hint and we're playing Auburn up in up in Birmingham there and I'm up into play yeah War Eagles boy War Eagle spent I was raised on Alabama and War Eagle football you know but I'm up at the plate the pitcher throws one in there and I ripped that dadgum ball and I think was fly off my bad boy but any higher there you know but it goes past the shortstop in the second base it goes through and all I can see what you went through son opposite day I'm gonna get tooth out of this thing so I thought bat down I run down I hit first base all I want to do is circle first waist and kick it with a side of my foot where takes too long to step on that bag just kick it and get on down a second so I'm running in a second I can see the ball it got through the centerfielder and the now filter it's gonna go to the wall man so help me I'm gonna give me another I'm gonna get me another base you know I hit second base and I start down to third well when I was going down the third I can't see the ball cause now it's behind me but I got a third base coach down there and he's gonna tell me what to do he's gonna give me this that means hold up hold up you're okay just hold her don't go don't try go past the air you know or he's gonna give me this means slide baby hit the deck it's gonna be tight you know yeah or he's gonna give me this I mean go home baby you know and I'm thinking oh my golly I'm gonna get me a dadgum home run and I hit third base and I start down that third-base line to home the catcher moves out on the third base line about a yard in front of the dadgum home plate he's gonna block me from getting in there I can't go around him because I got out of the baseline you're out you know and so boy I've coming in there hard and the center field he picks the ball up those are to the shortstop shortstop fires at home and I got a race or that ball who gets that that um home plate about that as I get to that catcher I hit him as hard as I can hit you know and and and the ball hits his mitt about the same times I hit him and the ball bounces out and over on the ground I reached over the top I hit home plate with my hand and the UMP said you're safe that's a home run and I was excited I was excited man I got up just a little red mullet off look that gum uniform but team came up with the bench and we shook we did not have high five since 652 we didn't have high five so we just just shake hands with everybody yeah but anyway the first baseman yells to the catcher thumb in the ball you imagine what's going to happen you had it happen to didn't catcher takes the ball to the first baseman he touches first base and them said you're out you missed first base you know seventy years ago I still think I got it but anyway yeah I never got that home run by the way he never got off the front but anyway I was out because I didn't touch first I got second I got third I got home but I didn't touch first now the morals of that story is this and if I could get any point across to you today this would be the one I'd want to get across picture yourself up in the sky looking down at the base baseball infield first base second base third base home plate second base that's all those good things you've done you know I've done some good things I've done some bad thanks to but I don't count but I've done some good things you know and so that's what said and I touched that I got that then I came down the third base third basis all those good things you've won and done like he mentioned while ago national championships conference championships coach of the year this and that that's third but I got there basis to see then home plate down here if you cry she hit that baby it could be a home run you know and I got it but I've never got a home run why because I miss first I miss first what is first base Jesus or God that's first base you know and tomorrow and the morrow tomorrow that's story is simply that if you plan to go to heaven which I hope you do you have got to touch first base I don't care I don't care I don't care how good you are I don't care how much money you give to the church I don't care how much you attend to the church if you don't touch first base you don't make it does that make sense to you it's good a little story in it and and then the life you know you go through life now like I say I'll be 90 and in a month before a month you know what my life is behind me y'all's life is ahead of you you spent some of it but you still have got a lot ahead of yours mine's behind me you know and by looking back I can see it get exactly how God answered my prayer and I'm gonna tell you how you did I hope I hope I don't bore you my finished high school I went to college when I finished college my last ball game the athletic director at Bosco came up to me and said Bobby if you'll go get your master's degree will hire you next year man I got a dadgum job you were a lot of folks that graduate from college they can't even file a dadgum job you know but here I am all I got to do is get my masters and I've got a job so I go get my masters you know thank you God God got me that job you know I coach here two years as assistant coach then I get a call from the president South Georgia College who I never heard of Cochabamba we're looking for head football coach would you be interested a head coach yeah I'd be interested and we'll come down and get an interview so my wife I Drive down to Douglas Georgia we get interviewed the president said go home I'll call you next week I want to interview a couple more people the next Thursday he call me coach Bowden we want you as a head coach we voted last night to have you as a head coach and he said we want you to be the head football coach athletic director and head basketball coach I don't laugh usually when I say basketball everybody better starts to roar it you know sigh coach basketball my first year and we didn't do didn't do too good you know lemon lemon you know that ain't all that bad you know we lost LEM on the road lost lemon home I would say I was the athletic director so I fired me when the hired a basketball coach you know but anyway I stayed there for years we won state championship first year state championship second year state championship at third year fourth year I think we came out second and the president called me in one day coach Bowden we're gonna drop football we're all losing money everybody in this everybody in the conference we had about six or seven teams that played football back back in those days but everybody losing money so we're gonna drop football you can stay here as baseball coach and AD well I want to coach football but anyway folks it's been a long it's been a long time ago and it might have been two weeks it might have been two days like later it might have been three days later it might have been a week later or two but not over that I get a call from Samford University coach Bowden we're looking for head football coach would you be interested oh gosh yes so I go and get interviewed and get the job now let's see that's one two three three jobs I didn't apply form [Applause] the only way I can count for that it's it's God's work God was going God was getting me jobs you know it and so when I went to Sanford just head football coach we had four good years where the best record ever had there and they had that year at the end of the year 1962 they had the Atlantic but the Atlantic quarterback club had one of the most prestigious quarterback clubs in the nation and they they they invited all the major head coaches in the south to come to that banquet they didn't invite small college coaches and I was a small college coach so but they invited the coaches Alabama a coach at Auburn the coach at Georgia Georgia Tech Florida Miami over to Louisiana and although there were 17 major head coaches there and I got invited how in the world did I get invited I was at a small college I got invited because the president of that club went to school where do you think he went to my school you know so he wanted his coach there so I got to go so I'm sitting up ever all in big time guys you know more I'm excited as I can be you know guess who they sent me next to a guy a coach named Bill Peterson bill Peterson was the head coach at Florida State I heard of him either you know I'd heard of him either but he and I get to talking he says I'm looking for an assistant coach would you be interested in coming to Florida State my wife and I had decided I needed to get into a big school if I ever expected to make it in a big school so I said yeah I'd be interested he said we'll come down for an interview so my dad went down for an interview and got the job you know I didn't apply for it that's the fourth job I got I didn't apply for it's answer a prayer to me you know so anyway I got I go to Sanford if I don't get mixed up get behind here somehow oh my coach there at Sanford and then and get the assistant job at Florida State I'm assistant coach for three years you ever had a job you really wasn't happy with that's kind of the way I was I was at Florida State and nothing was happening I'm saying man I won't get lost in the shuffle right here you know I so I did I had two jobs offered me one was in Auburn the other was at West Virginia University my wife and I decided we let's go to West Virginia I can recruit Pennsylvania and Ohio and New York and Virginia and increase my awareness of other states so we decided to go to West Virginia so we go to West Virginia I'm assistant coach there for four years we play in the Peach Bowl we play South Carolina we beat South Carolina and after the game the head football coach Jim Carlin caused all of his coaches back in the dressing room we're all that we're all thinking what the heck does he want we want to go home you know usually I bowl game eat a coffin usually have about a month off and so we haven't beaten he says coaches I'm leaving I'm going to Texas Tech as a head coach now as assistant coach there and he's leaving what should I do I should run to the ad and tell him I want that job I should run to the president and the committee they're all there to game and tell them I should like to be the head football coach here but I couldn't do that you know why my daddy was dying in Birmingham Alabama so Ann and me and six kids we took off for Birmingham and what thought was going through my mind Bobby you just lost that job you ain't gonna get it now somebody else is gonna get it you know because they're gonna have a chance to try to get it well I so watch I guess I want to see my daddy so I go home I see daddy I get up the next morning I get a phone call about 9 o'clock coach about this is red Brown the athletic director at West Virginia we met last night and we want you to be the head football coach at West Virginia that's five jobs I got and I ain't applied yet you know but but but but but to me I just kept thinking God must God must be working all this out well I coach up there for six years and we went to a couple of bowls I get a call from Florida State Florida State had they would Owen live them they went one in ten they went three and eight you know why don't I come I want to go down there you know they're not winning any ballgames and so and I thought about it a long time at the last moment we decided let's go to Florida State so good we go we go back down to Florida State then I coach there for 34 years we went over 300 games at we we won over 300 games at Florida State no other coaches everyone that meant at one school except Joe Paterno Joe and I went 300 games at our schools you know and we won a couple of national championships a lot of conference championships had a lot of all Americans had went we were the 28th straight bowl games while I was a in football coach but but anyway you see what I'm trying to say to you I made a pledge to God if you will heal me I'll do my best to serve you and I have tried to serve him now listen I hadn't obeyed all the time I'm just as a I can say I am a Christian I'm a Christian because I believe in Christ not because I deserve it not because something I did but something he did you know and and so God answered all my prayer and kept me it kept my jobs going you know I hope I didn't bore you with that I had to find something different to you FCA but anyway it's it's nice to have a Savior I've got a I had when I was young I had to have a savior I couldn't make it without a Savior you know it so I accepted Christ as my savior and I'm what am I assured of eternal life living forever you know while we're here on this earth it's just as temporary that's temporary that's not our home our home is in heaven or hell you know it and I have been guaranteed I will go to heaven because I accepted and and my prayer would be that everyone else has done the same thing what we meant let me tell you one last story then am I going through long okay proverbs 4:23 you ever read proverbs you don't know how to raise your family read proverbs read proverbs proverbs 4:23 I have spoke on hundreds of times at banquets it says keep thy heart diligent and diligence because out of it comes the issues of life you know and and you when you think about it everything you do begins with a thought then that thought becomes words then those words become action then that action becomes your habits you know you're known by your habits people know you by your habits you know then your habits decide your character and your character decides where you will spend eternity you know and so keeping your heart diligently so we important 1939 yeah I was leaving y'all y'all wait 1939 the University of Illinois was playing the University of Michigan the University of Michigan was the number one football team in the nation the year before 38 they won the national championship and they're fixed to play Illinois now the only thing is Illinois hadn't won a game they hadn't won a game I heard the coach at Illinois make this talk back in 1954 I've told it a hundred times since then you know but he told the story he said we had worse team I ever had at Illinois we couldn't beat nobody we'll open up the season we tied Peoria nothing and nothing then we lost the next game and the next game and the next game then we all have to play Michigan God leave me and coach said a practice that week it was sorriest practice ever had you know their captain was named male Brewer I spoke up in Illinois one time it happened to be his hometown they reminded it when I told him it story that he was from their male Brewers mama died his mama died he got to go home coach sent him home said you go home take care of home you know so he has to go now he was the only spirit that their team had this is a leader and he's gone coach said that is the worst week of practice ever had that we're gonna get killed this week so anyway Friday night before the game Illinois I took their team outside of town they stayed at a hotel where they get their boys away from the girlfriends and all other people that would distract you know and they were sitting in a room like this and all these tables right here the boys were eating eating supper coaches up here going over the black y'all know what a black board is yo y'all do remember black boards and kids now they do you know what a black board is what but anyway coaches up here going over instructions for tomorrow's game kids are sitting out there bored to death you know then coach gets through and he starts giving them tomorrow's game plan the back door opens male Brewer sticks his head in the door come in let me say this before you all say anything I want to thank you for those beautiful flowers you sent my mother I want to thank you for the cards and letters you wrote my mother and I want you to know if y'all think I came back to get beat tomorrow you're crazy coach said you could hurt a pin drop and so anyway they went out the next day you can imagine what application Illinois upset the number-one football team in the nation you know and that's one of the biggest upsets ever in college football you have upsets every Saturday but that's that word stands up with one of the tops ever you know and but the question is this is the Illinois team that hadn't won a game had him scored is that the same team that beat Michigan well it's not the same team it's not the same team they wear the same uniforms they have the same muscles same bodies same minds but they're not the same team because the issues of life come from the heart thank all of you [Applause] coach said that he will answer a couple questions we have a few minutes and so I'm going to help facilitate that a little bit and then afterwards we're going to come down off the stage and I know you're going to be going to dinner and things like that if we need to get coach going quickly to a couple other things but if you wanted to take a quick picture as a group like five six seven well that could happen but the biggest thing is we just need to honor his time and and so forth so is there any questions any FSU fans out there anything any questions just stand and raise your hand and speak loud all-time favorite comfort behind victory can I just tell you that all favorite coming behind it tie this let's talk about the tie right we're playing the University of Florida at Tallahassee we're in the top ten and so are they at the four in the fourth quarter with ten minutes to go Florida State has us thirty one two three we tied up we tied up we end up 31 31 it was just like a win to us you know that's my favorite very cool someone some what you have right back here [Music] other than Deion Sanders the most gifted player you ever saw well a bad jury on what a bit beyond a dadgum good answer you know it but maybe maybe Charlie Ward maybe Charlie Ward hold on hold on hold on hold on anybody in FL or college anybody any college team who is the best I ever coached is that what he said ever ever seen the best I ever have seen best player I've ever seen my favorite was a guy named Charlie trippy who played for the University of Georgia back in the forties he was at his time he was the best football player I ever saw and I got to meet him one time you know and got his autograph and I'm sure there's been a lot more others since then because athletes are so much better today they're bigger they're stronger they're faster you know but he was always my favorite sounds like the opening to Six Million Dollar Man yeah right here what is the difference between a good team and a great team the big thing is team team I used to tell my players this anytime we were playing a team that have better players than us now they should win because I always felt like whoever's got the best player go in and they normally did but there are upsets but when we would play somebody that was had better players I used to tell my team men it's not the best players that win it's the best team if we can play as a team good question couple more a couple more right but right over here a specific coach that you enjoyed beating more throughout your career I'll tell you just women in any of makes you happy you know but coach Spurrier would have to be he we beat him but he also beat us but that was big because FSU boosters proper rather be farther than anybody else you know what's the best advice that you would give another coach coaching a team the best thing I would first thing I'll tell him don't take any shortcuts obey the rules obey the roof you see if there's a player out there I won't and this other guy wants them I'll give him $10,000 if he'll come here now that's against the rules but that does happen no that's not fair don't do that you know always abide by the rules that be my starting place and then try to make your practices harder than the game make you practice harder than the game so when they get in the game it's not as tough as it was on Thursday or Wednesday you know that would be the advice I would start with [Applause] the one loss the one loss in your whole career that keeps your feeling she asked me what's the worst loss in my mind and that's a UC answer because I had it one time the first year I was a head coach at West Virginia we played our biggest rivals West Virginia's biggest rival was Pitt we played at Pitt all the West Virginians when a friend set on that side we got ahead of them thirty five to eight it to have everything we did turn into a touchdown we come out the second half we can't make up first down and they start picking away and picking away and they ended up beating us 36 to 35 that was definitely the worst I ever fed well you know why I love football I was when I was born my house until I was five years old backed up to a high school football field up in Birmingham we moved and when we moved we moved at the bottom of the hill from a college football field so every time I'd go to school grammar school I had to walk across that campus down the my school walk back across that campus they'd be practicing football I walk by go home put my pocket full of peanuts and give me an apple walk back up at school and watch them practice and play around with our dumbest you know so so I did that till I was 18 so I think that's a good you ask a good question I think the fact that I was around it all the time it just kind of led me into it and then when I got that first job offer go get your degree I will give you that started me off you know and that's what I did and if they hadn't have offered me a job I might have my daddy had a real estate business he wanted me to come there with him I might have gone that direction it had not been for that what was that people losing faith throughout their journey what would you share with them how to reignite it well that's a that's a very good question and I'm sure that's faced over and over again in other words to be a Christian you've got to have faith I've got to believe in something I can't see you know how I could see Jesus standing there or God's stuck his head out of a sleeve in there I couldn't be easy to believe you know but it's believing in something you cannot see you know and when I look back at the things that happened to me I mean I feel sure there's a God I'm sure he hears us you know and he says I want you to talk to me I want you to ask me reason you don't have it you don't ask I'm asking baby but again I think having faith in something you can't see if you don't have that you ain't gonna make it when we were having our success getting good players we in the end the 90s that decade we won more games in his team had ever won in ten years you know we're getting all the good players we're getting great players and that that's my philosophy and kocha was very simple he who gets the best players is going to win and that usually that usually happen now a coach a coach can blow that you know that you know and but if you got I got better players New York more probably with you if you if yours are better than me oh you can probably whip me yeah it's good question well you have to realize when you get into coaching you're not going to win all your games you might as well to accept that fact you know it and then when you get beat like I did you know they're ready to hang me boy arrest me do that ready to run me off you know and you I had to decide hey Bobby do you want to stay in this game are you gonna run you know and I remember I'm going to stay with it you know now what happened is the next year no that was my first year yeah four years later we had a good year won a bowl and I left and went to Florida State yes I made a decision to stay in the game you know then and I thank goodness it never happened again well I'll tell you what I learned you know every game every game you learn something you know what I learned that game we were 35 to 8 and got beat you know what I learned don't sit on the ball I mean baby play ever down like you're behind yes that's what I did from then on I played every down like we were behind you know thank you very much good to see everybody give it up for coach Bobby Bowden [Applause]

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Published: Thu Oct 31 2019