Dabo Swinney Quotes

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Dabo Swinney

Profession : Coach

Birth : November 20, 1969

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

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You may not have any interest in Clemson whatsoever, but if Clemson calls, and they want to pay for you to come, and feed you and put you in a hotel, well, who doesn't want to go do that? Sign me up. Let's go, man.

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I'm not trying to be like everybody else. I want to be Clemson, and Clemson's not for everybody.

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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.

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There's some criminals that wear badges. Guess what? There's some criminals that work in the media. There's some criminals that are football coaches. There's some criminals that are politicians. There are criminals that work in churches.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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It's hard for me to come up with a plan and hold my players accountable until I self-evaluate and hold myself accountable.

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

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

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We work too hard to be miserable.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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