Quotes from Dabo Swinney

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.

No, we don't control who our parents are. We don't control what color we are. We don't control what home we are born into. But we control our attitude. We control our work ethic. We control our drive and our commitment.

No matter what's behind us in the rearview mirror, it's always about what's next.

Everybody sees me now, and I'm the head coach at Clemson and this and that, but my life hasn't always been this way.

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

I have an MBA, but my Ph.D. is in people. Everything I do is about relationships.

My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.

I've never really hired anybody that people thought I should hire.

I think God has got a sense of humor. I really do.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

There's nobody tougher on the players than me. Nobody.

I'm counting every silver lining I can get.

You got to be a champion on the inside.

I just think there is a right way to do things, and I don't think two wrongs make a right.

Trust me, people that know me know I ain't perfect, but I do try to live my life in a way that hopefully can be pleasing to my maker because I know I'm going to meet Him one day, and He's not going to pat me on the back and talk about how many wins I had or how many Coach of the Year trophies we got or how much money I made.

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.

If you grow up with traditions in your family, it's always nice to be able to get home and have those moments.

There's a lot of good police officers. There's thousands of perfect traffic stops. Lot of good men. Lot of good women. But those don't get the stories.

I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.

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.