Dabo Swinney

“I'm thankful for the experience and to be able to coach other young people on their journey through college football. It's a privilege.”

“I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be perfect. So, when people point out I'm imperfect, so what? That's just who I am.”

“We work too hard to be miserable.”

“I'm not a sympathetic guy when I see people throwing their lives away and using their life's obstacles as excuses to fail. I just don't buy into that.”

“As I've said many times, it's one thing to dream about something; it's another thing to experience it. It's one thing to think you're good enough; it's another thing to know you're good enough.”

“My dad was the biggest Alabama fan ever, and I was brainwashed.”

“A win is a win, and I've just always felt that way, and I've always been passionate about that.”

“Always remember, the goals that we have achieved pale in comparison to the daily commitments it took to get there.”

“When you win by three touchdowns in a state championship and you've got people who can't appreciate that? That's really sad.”

“I thought, 'If I ever get a new football building, I want a slide.' Now I go down it every day.”

“I don't think it's good to be a distraction to your team.”

“The key to coaching is love. It's not knowledge; it's not discipline. If you love 'em, you can discipline them. If you love 'em, you can yell at them and laugh about it later.”

“I always tell people, good coaches are a dime a dozen. Good coaches that are good people, good husbands, good fathers, that love their players and are passionate about doing things in a way that I believe is important, that pool gets real small.”

“When you get a young group of people that believe, are passionate... and committed to a single purpose, you better look out. Great things can happen.”

“I'm the biggest pansy you've ever seen.”

“When a guy comes unofficially, then he, to me, is sending you a message that, 'You know what? Hey, I'm interested in Clemson.' Now, he may hate it when he gets here. But at least he came on his own. That's just my personal philosophy.”

“You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away.”

“I've never seen myself as a second-class citizen.”

“My entire life, nothing's been easy. This is the way it ought to be.”

“Everything in life is how you respond to it. If everything went perfect all the time - you never lost a game, you got to the championship every time, you always won, you always got the top recruit, you always made the A - you really wouldn't truly appreciate all that goes into it.”