The Bowdens are the First Family of college football. Bobby, the father, built the winningest program of the decade at Florida State. Son Terry took over an Auburn team on probation and led it back into the top tier of the sport. Son Tommy is Auburn's offensive coordinator and will likely get his own program in the next few seasons. Son Jeff, now coaching Florida State receivers, will earn his own head coaching opportunity one day. So will the boys' brother-in-law Jack Hines - who played for Bobby, married his oldest daughter, Robyn, and now coaches with Terry at Auburn. Reading this book is like accepting an exclusive invitation to a Bowden family gathering, where discussions range from informal debates about the best winning strategy to disarmingly candid appraisals of the racial undercurrents of college athletics. Listen to inside stories of key moments in Games of the Century, of the recruiting and coaching of famous athletes such as Deion Sanders and Charlie Ward. Hear how it feels to be trapped inside a locker room with angry fans pounding on the door, to be the son of a coach hanged in effigy, to have to choose between the interests of a troubled young athlete and the image of a football program. Learn, with the Bowdens, the lessons of careers measured in clock ticks and place-kicks.

Winning's Only Part of the Game: Lessons of Life and Football

Bowden, Bobby

Brown, Ben

Bowden, Terry

Bowden Family

Biographies & Memoirs

Grand Central Publishing

The author recounts his long and successful coaching career and discusses the importance of his Christian faith in facing the challenges of life

More Than Just a Game

SMITH, Bill

Regional U.S.

Thomas Nelson. Inc.

From 1987 to 2000 the Florida State Seminoles won the hearts of America and thrilled their fans with fourteen consecutive ten-win, top-five seasons. In seven of those seasons they lost only one game. More often than not, the players’ quest for a perfect season came down to one play where mere inches or seconds determined the outcome. This special collection of essays spotlights the extraordinary strength of Coach Bobby Bowden’s leadership and character, providing entertaining insight into the national landscape surrounding Florida State football in the fourteen-year dynasty era. Author Charlie Barnes served as executive director and senior vice president of Seminole Boosters until his retirement in 2012. He and Coach Bowden traveled together on the annual Seminole Booster banquet-and-golf circuit (The Bobby Bowden Tour) for more than thirty years. Charlie Barnes was also the voice of the boosters, and his articles appeared in the Report to Boosters, Unconquered Magazine, the Florida State Times, the Tallahassee Democrat, and more. Coach Bobby Bowden and his son Steve also teamed together to provide Bobby’s insights on each of the fourteen years of the dynasty for this book, which is a companion to the feature documentary film The Bowden Dynasty.

The Bowden Dynasty: A Story of Faith, Family & Football an Insider's Account

Barnes, Charlie

Leaders & Notable People

Broadstreet Pub Group Llc

Success. Influence. Accolades. Winning. Legendary Football Coach Bobby Bowden has it all. As the all-time winningest coach in Division I football history, Coach Bowden has statues erected in his honor and national charities and awards named after him. Four generations of fans have heard his message and witnessed his results. He built a successful career, climbed to the top of his field, and has a loving family. It's what we all want. And yet, Coach Bowden, who, as he puts it, is in the "fourth quarter" of his life, has a message for us all. The success . . . the influence . . . the accolades . . . the wins. . . none of it matters if our lives are not rooted in faith. God trumps our best hand. He always wins. Which is how it should be. That is the wisdom he wants to share. Let him tell you why faith and happiness are inseparable. No matter your life circumstance, The Wisdom of Faith shows you what really matters—from the perspective of a man who has made the journey. In his New York Times best-selling book, Coach Bowden looks back over eighty years and invites us to look forward with him into the future.

The Wisdom of Faith

Bowden, Steve

Religion & Spirituality

B&H Books

Coach Bobby Bowden is an icon of college football who ran his legendary, top-ranking program with a trademark southern charm. With his recent retirement, Bowden is ready to give fans and readers the behind-the-scenes story of his 55-year career and the path that helped him become one of college football's most successful coaches and patriarch of the sport's most famous coaching family. In this book, Bowden will reveal never-before-published details of the moments and events that have defined his life, including: * The tragic death of his grandson and son-in-law in a 2004 automobile accident. * The details of his retirement as FSU's coach at the end of the 2009 season.

Called to Coach: Reflections on Life, Faith, and Football

Schlabach, Mark

Howard Books

In this New York Times bestseller, legendary coach Bobby Bowden gives readers an inside look at the path that led him to become one of college football’s most successful coaches—now in paperback. Coach Bobby Bowden is an icon of college football who ran his legendary, top-ranking program with a trademark southern charm. With his recent retirement, Bowden is ready to give fans and readers the behind-the-scenes story of his 55-year career and the path that helped him become one of college football's most successful coaches and patriarch of the sport's most famous coaching family. In this book, Bowden will reveal never-before-published details of the moments and events that have defined his life, including: * The tragic death of his grandson and son-in-law in a 2004 automobile accident. * The details of his retirement as FSU's coach at the end of the 2009 season.

Called to Coach: Reflections on Life, Faith and Football

As head football coach at Florida State, Bobby Bowden has won two national championships and compiled an astounding resume of all-time credentials. Filled with personal anecdotes, famous names, and fascinating stories, The Bowden Way promises to be the leadership book that will redefine the game.

The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom

Professionals & Academics

Taylor Trade Publishing

As head football coach at Florida State, Bobby Bowden has won two national championships and compiled an astounding resume of all-time credentials. Filled with personal anecdotes, famous names, and fascinating stories, The Bowden Way promises to be the leadership book that will redefine the game. With lessons from his years of coaching, this book puts readers inside the mind of a legend in modern sports.

Bobby Bowden is spending what should be his retirement years gathering victories and collecting more fodder for stories that must be told between staff meetings, film study, cross-country recruiting trips, and even the tackling of hundreds of footballs and posters that daily await the signature of NCAA Division I-A's all-time winningest coach. For the architect of one of college football's great dynasties--14 consecutive seasons of Associated Press top five finishes -- his rocker is a swivel chair that swings easily to his right so that even with the next season six months away, he can study opponent's game tape that almost always fills the large projection screen that dominates his office. His porch is an office crammed with more than 300 books he uses to break from the pressures as the coach of one college football's most recognized programs. It boasts a view of Doak Campbell Stadium, where as an assistant coach and head coach he has been a Seminole for more than 31 years. It is down there and on legendary road trips to Nebraska, Clemson, Florida, and so many other places that gutsy trick plays were called and executed, leading to Bowden's nickname a the "Riverboat Gambler." It is where plays that only Bowden would dare try, including some he now regrets attempting, have unfolded. It is also where the final results of amusing and unexpected events on the recruiting trail were written. They are substance for stories that should not, and will not, wait for retirement. Readers will be among the group that gathers around as Bowden tells his Tales from the Seminole Sideline.

Bobby Bowden's Tales From The Seminole Sideline

Ellis, Steve

Sports Pub

This beautiful, limited-edition volume is hand-numbered and autographed by coaching legend Bobby Bowden and co-author Steve Ellis. Certificate of Authenticity included, only 500 copies of this leather-bound edition printed! "Telling stories?I enjoy that. It comes with growing older. But I don?t see the day where I'm sitting on the porch rocking with a bunch of guys around me and I'm telling stories. I can't see that. It's just like golf. People say, 'Aren't you going to the Masters?' No. I don't care anything about going to the Masters. I?d rather go play than see those great players. I'm not a good spectator. I want to play, and that's the way I am. I would rather still be doing this if I can." ?Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden's Tales from the Seminoles Sideline

History

Americas

Sports Publishing, LLC

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Winning's Only Part of the Game: Lessons of Life and Football

More Than Just a Game

The Bowden Dynasty: A Story of Faith, Family & Football an Insider's Account

The Wisdom of Faith

Called to Coach: Reflections on Life, Faith, and Football

Called to Coach: Reflections on Life, Faith and Football

The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom

The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom

Bobby Bowden's Tales From The Seminole Sideline

Bobby Bowden's Tales from the Seminoles Sideline