Motivational Speaker - Terry Bowden - Total Access Speakers Bureau

Terry Bowden has made the same dramatic entrance into the broadcasting industry as he did as a head coach in college football. He has quickly become one of the top studio analysts in college football, co-hosting television's most distinguished studio show on ABC Sports. Sitting beside John Saunders at ABC's New York City studio, his energy and insight are captivating viewers all over the country.

He was born into the most famous and successful college football family. His father, Bobby Bowden, turned Florida State into a national champion, his brother Tommy is head coach at Clemson, brother Jeff is the offensive coordinator at Florida State and brother-in-law Jack Hines is an assistant coach at Clemson. Terry Bowden certainly did his part to add luster and glory to the first family of college football.

As a student-athlete at West Virginia University, Terry lettered two years as a running back (1977-78), held a 3.65 GPA in accounting, the highest GPA on the football team, and graduated Magna Cum Laude. He did post graduate work at Oxford University in England, and earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the Florida State University School of Law in 1982 while a graduate assistant coach at FSU.

As a college football coach, Bowden was enormously successful, compiling a 15-year record of 111-53-2 and an impressive winning percentage of 68 percent. As head coach of the Auburn Tigers, he won 73 percent of his games and posted the best opening five-year run of any head football coach in school history.

Although Terry Bowden's bright future is firmly planted in network television, it all began walking the sidelines as a head football coach. Looking back to those years tells you two things about Terry--number one, he's a winner; and number two, don't ever underestimate him.

Terry Bowden has been ultra-successful as a student, an athlete, and a college football coach. He is a rousing motivational speaker, football speaker and sports speaker that will inspire your company or organization to reach beyond its limitations to achieve success! The qualities that have made him successful throughout his life--enthusiasm, contagious optimism, confidence and work ethic--are the same qualities that he now relies on as a network television studio analyst for college football.

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* Win With Teamwork
Being a winner is not always about having the best players, but having the players that play their best together. Teamwork is the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organized objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. You can throw money at all your problems if you want, but it doesn�t cost one thin dime to motivate each and every person within your organization to be their very best. Ultimately, it�s about getting our eleven to play better than their eleven.

* Motivating the Benchwarmers
You don�t need to motivate that top salesman any more than you do the star running back. Those guys were born to win. If you want to build a winner then you better find a way to inspire the back up lineman, the walk-on, and the guy who never gets off the bench. Those are the guys who are ultimately going to get you over the top. I call it the But For Rule. Getting each and every person in the organization to believe that but for their effort, but for their ability, but for their very job, we can not be successful.

* Audacity: The Belief That You Can Accomplish Anything
No leader has ever accomplished anything great without audacity. If a leader is filled with high ambition and he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. After our undefeated season at Auburn University in 1993, I asked our football team what they wanted to accomplish in 1994. Every single young man said they wanted to go undefeated again. My first impression was that this was crazy � nobody wins every game two years in a row. Then I thought again. This was not crazy�it was audacity!

* You Can Make a Difference
A man was walking down the beach and noticed that there were thousands of starfish all across the sand that had crawled out of the ocean due to the red tide. Although the water had cleared, the sun was taking its toll and the starfish were drying up and dying. As the man continued to walk down the beach, he noticed that another man walking in front of him was bending over every now and then to pick something up, and each time that he did he got a little closer. Finally, the man caught up with the other fellow and asked what he was doing. The man said that the starfish were dying in the sun and that he was putting them back in the water. �But there are millions of them. What kind of difference do you think you can make?� To that, the man bent over and picked up another starfish, tossed it into the water and said, �Well, I guess I made a difference to that one.�

Each of us has the ability�no, the obligation�to make a difference in the lives of others. So often we want to pat ourselves on the back when we do something special even for our own children. However, true success comes from making a difference in someone else�s child�or more importantly, in a child you don�t even know. I call it planting shade trees under which you�ll never sit.

Terry Bowden

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