Dabo Swinney

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

You don't have to sacrifice your family to be a great coach. ”

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

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

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”