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I think all coaches look at it as a major part of our job: to build young men, not just ball players. To put the right things in front of them, and help them mature as men, not just as players. Bob Stoops

Any time you experience adversity, whether you lose a game or maybe have an official who makes a poor call that costs you the game, you've gotta handle yourself properly. Just like in life, not everything will go your way. Bob Stoops

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I can't remember the last time I've been to a football game as a spectator. Bob Stoops

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Sometimes people want change just to change. It doesn't mean it's going to be better. Bob Stoops

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When people ask me where I'm from I say I'm from Oklahoma. Bob Stoops

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I have a very strong faith. Bob Stoops

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I know what really matters in my life. Bob Stoops

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Patty Gasso is the best. I think she's awesome. Bob Stoops

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Sometimes you get in life something you don't like... you have to do something different. Bob Stoops

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I think every league is good. Every league is pretty much the same: You got your top teams that are all very good, you got middle of the road teams that are really good and then you got your bottom of leagues that are all kind if fighting to get really good. I think it's pretty much the same across the board; I've said that for a long time. Bob Stoops

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I've got great respect for all the teams in the SEC as well as the Big 12, the Big Ten, on and on. Bob Stoops

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Just being in the locker room as a young person growing up was something I've always enjoyed, without ever having it forced upon me. Bob Stoops

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Everyone has to earn their money one way or the other. Bob Stoops

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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. Bobby Bowden

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Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do. Bobby Bowden

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Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left. Bobby Bowden

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He who gets the best players usually wins. Bobby Bowden

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The heck with political correctness. I've never believed in it. Bobby Bowden

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Do I think God is going to win football games? Oh no. I never prayed to God to help us win a game. I would pray for the safety of the players. I would pray that they would do their best. I think God will answer that. Bobby Bowden

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God. Bobby Bowden

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I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be? Bobby Knight

I want to say to you Indiana people that I owe you a big, big debt of gratitude because nowhere in the world is a sporting group followed more than this state follows basketball. And I just want to thank you for the opportunity that I had to coach in this state - it will always be something that I will cherish. Bobby Knight

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If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid. Bobby Knight

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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit. Bobby Knight

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