Don't go to the grave with life unused.

If somebody mistreats you, treat 'em good. That kills 'em.

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.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.

Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.

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.

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.

I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.

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 won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

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

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.

The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.

The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.

There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.

You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.

Theres a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches those who have been fired and those who havent been fired yet. Thats kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.

Dont go to the grave with life unused.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.