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

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.

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.

I keep my head down, my mouth shut and work hard.

I come from a background where you don't really talk about yourself much.

The most ideal approach to advance is the way of opportunity.

Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

Hindsight must surely be the most useless function of the human brain torturing yourself over the unalterable past.

People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.

You can be a scared slave or you can be a brave human being.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

I think what's so great about 'Arrow' is that they really ground everything in reality.

In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Hijab is beautiful so make it look beautiful wear it with love wear it with pride and most of all wear it Right.

It's easy to get carried away with yourself.

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

Minimalism is about creating complete harmony and not about making simple.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I use only essential oils for perfumes.

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for.

So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.