Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Dabo Swinney - Page 2

We work too hard to be miserable.

I just look back at my entire life. You know, my faith. I knew that I was where I was supposed to be.

I'm not a 'more is better' guy.

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

As long as I've been at Clemson, there's not a guy that's more committed to Clemson than Kelly Bryant. There's not a better leader. This guy, he's the epitome of what you want. He's what you want your son to be like. I love him like a son.

I hate the fact that, all of a sudden now, it's not cool to go to the Gator Bowl. Are you kidding me? I don't like that mindset.

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.

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

I know the price I've paid to be where I am.

I've had people say things to me like, 'Don't change.' I don't know how to be anything other than myself.

I'm a Christian, but I've coached and played with Muslims and all kind of different religions.

I am who I am. At the end of the day, you've got to be who you are.

A football team is really just a reflection of society. You've got 118, 120 guys on the team, you got a little bit of everything.

I've just never really gotten caught up in what people think about me, because I can't control that.

My father figures were my coaches.

You're looking at a guy who grew up in the state of Alabama, and my dream was to play there.

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

I love that about college football. I love all the funky matchups. I love the Funky Cold Medina Poulan Weed Eater Bowl. I love all of that. I like the crazy games. There's obviously a market for it because them TVs love to put it on there.

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.

In recruiting, you talk about anything and everything a recruit wants to talk about that seems relevant.

If Alabama were 8-4, they'd still be dominating the conversation.

I just made a decision a long time ago: I'm not going to be defined by a scoreboard.

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

Any time you have a Heisman-caliber player, it just - that means he's a Heisman guy for a reason. So usually, that - for your team, that means a lot of big plays. Usually, there's a lot of wins tied to those Heisman guys, that's for sure. So it's always great when you got great players.

Listen, I come from the most screwed-up dysfunctional situation. You've got violence. Police at your house. Your dad's gone. Nowhere to live. I want people to know, if I can make it, anybody can make it.

I've always really respected Mark Richt. I think he's a great man, first of all, and I think he's a great coach and a guy that truly cares about the players and always has.

I was one of those kids who watched the Bear Bryant Show every Sunday, and every time Alabama played, I was listening on the radio. I'd fight you if you talked bad about Alabama.

I'm not going to apologize for having a great team and a great program and a bunch of committed guys, and Coach Saban is not, either.

Sometimes fans... they want more and more and more, and they think you win a national championship every year. It doesn't work that way.

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

I love the trips that I've experienced as a player and a coach.

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.

The thing I enjoy the most about being the head coach is that I get to create the climate. I get to control the environment everybody comes to work in every day, and I'm very in tune to the chemistry, the morale of my staff, my support staff, my secretaries, the guy cleaning the building, the players, the walk-ons.

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.

I'm just telling you: I don't know what the heck I'm talking about - I'm just an old funky college coach - but Deshaun Watson is the best by a long shot.

I don't ever want to come in the locker room and have players in there pouting.

My job is to recruit the best players I can recruit. When they get here, challenge them and grow them into their best version.

I want to get to the top. I want to be the best. But I want to do it the right way and to enjoy the whole deal.

My dad was a great man, and I loved him, but he had some demons he fought. It was tough to see some of those things as a kid, but I believe God doesn't save you from things; he saves you through them.

Fans can have whatever mindset they want to have. But I don't want anything to creep into the culture of our program, because our players, they get stuff pushed at them - social media.

You can only get so far from an evaluation standpoint in practice, and you know, at some point, you've got to go play and kind of take that next step in the evaluation of just where you are and then grow and make adjustments as you go throughout the year.

All we can do is evaluate what we see in practice.

You know how ESPN works; they'll throw themselves into a frenzy over Tebow's white bread lame ass niceness and then vilify Johnny Football just 'cause he rages now and then.

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

Any time you have coaching changes and things like that, you go and study everything.

The media wants a nice guy, so I can give that to them. I figured I could be myself in this interview since no one's gonna read this JV newspaper.

Every game is huge and every game will count when it's all said and done.

You can't be afraid to play. Commit to play and you live with the results.

I love the Bowl system. I've always been a proponent of the Bowl system. I think it's been great for college football, for this level.

Whatever results you get, learn and grow from it and move on to the next one.

I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

It takes a lot to be Dabo Swinney, and not everyone can live this lifestyle. But, boy is it fun.

You have strengths within your team every single year and sometimes they stay the same, sometimes they change.

To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer.

Play within the system. Be a decision maker.

The opener is always very difficult every single year. It Really doesn't matter whom you play. The opener is difficult because you've got more time to prepare for one game than you do any game the rest of the year because you've got all spring, all summer to prepare for this opponent.

Every game is critical.

Sometimes you just have things within your team that you have to address, and I think you have to protect your culture a little bit. And sometimes it's sitting a guy down and that's just the way it will always be.