He who gets the best players usually wins.

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.

Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

All I would say is that I have been honored to serve my country for the past three decades and look forward to serving in other ways now that I am retired from the U.S. Army.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like walking into a casino and I decided to bet everything on hip-hop, and I hit! My hit wasn't just a hit for me, it was a hit for everyone in this culture.

I'm really not that confident!

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man: who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

For men, it's about finding the perfect shoe or the perfect pants that will last you through the years. That's how I want to shop: sustainable, classic, great quality.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

Energy like the biblical grain of the mustard seed will remove mountains.

I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.