Dabo Swinney Quotes

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Dabo Swinney

Profession : Coach

Birth : November 20, 1969

I want guys that are sincerely interested in coming to Clemson. I don't need any practice recruiting, and I don't like wasting time. I want to be transparent, and I want prospects to be transparent, and if they're really interested in Clemson, then they're going to come here unofficially on their own.

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I ain't never going to apologize for a 21-point win over a state rival, ever.

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My father figures were my coaches.

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I had a lot of time as a kid to dream. There wasn't much else left to do.

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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.

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

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We're all going to experience death and failure and setbacks and disappointments and cancer and, you know, it's a really difficult world. And for me, God has always - in my relationship with Christ - He's given me hope and peace.

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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.

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

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A lot of these things in this world were only a dream for Martin Luther King. Not a one-term, but a two-term African-American president. And this is a terrible country? That was a dream for Martin Luther King.

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I go to a church that's an interracial church.

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That's just my - I think that I made a decision when I was 16 - I grew up in a family that I was taught there was a God and all that, but I didn't really have a relationship with Christ until I was 16. And that was a game changer for me. That's really become the foundation of my life.

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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.

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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.

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I'm a big believer in the student-athlete part. I value the education and what it provides for you. Football is a vocation. Only 1.67 percent of these athletes go on to the NFL. An education provides you an opportunity for a career. A lot of people just don't get that. To say they aren't getting anything is misinformed.

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I didn't get into coaching to make money. I got into this for the coaching and teaching part.

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For me, and I've been on record saying it, let's create two leagues: one for players who want the college football experience, and another for those that want to get paid, have the NFL help fund it, whatever. Guys who don't want to go to school to get an education, let them go to work.

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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.

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I've never failed at anything in my life.

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I'm kind of a bottom-of-the-barrel guy.

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