Quotes from Dabo Swinney

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

It's the journey to get there. It's that moment in that locker room when you're with a group of people that have gotten it done. There's nothing like it. If you could bottle that up and take that out in the world, you'd dominate.

There's a lot of 'oops' from us in life as people. I always say that God never says 'oops.' That's just kind of how I've always lived my life, but we're so imperfect that there's a lot of times that we say, 'Oops, my bad.'

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

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.

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.

Everyone will be judged one day, but it's not up to me to judge somebody.

Colin Cowherd? I never met him; I don't know him.

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.

If my coach told me to go run them bleachers, you didn't ask no questions. I turned around and started running until he said stop.

All I know is, there's nothing we can't do at Clemson. I don't have to go somewhere else to win at the highest level, to recruit great players, to have great support - I really don't. I'm just really fortunate.

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.

We work too hard to be miserable.

I've never failed at anything in my life.

In Alabama, when you come out of the hospital, they have to stamp your birth certificate with either Alabama or Auburn, or you don't leave.

I always told people Alabama was the smartest state because it has four As and a B.

When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.

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.

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

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

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