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1. 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.
2. You better have an anchor in life. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you’re not anchored, you’re going to be washed away.
3. It’s hard for me to come up with a plan and hold my players accountable until I self-evaluate and hold myself accountable.
4. 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.
5. I’ve just never really gotten caught up in what people think about me, because I can’t control that.
6. My dad was the biggest Alabama fan ever, and I was brainwashed.
7. You don’t have to sacrifice your family to be a great coach.
8. 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.
9. I don’t ever want to come in the locker room and have players in there pouting.
10. My entire life, nothing’s been easy. This is the way it ought to be.
11. Listen, I come from the most screwed-up dysfunctional situation. You’ve got violence. Police at your house. Your dad’s gone. Nowhere to live. I want people to know, if I can make it, anybody can make it.
12. I’m not going to apologize for having a great team and a great program and a bunch of committed guys, and Coach Saban is not, either.
13. I don’t think it’s good to be a distraction to your team.
14. Colin Cowherd? I never met him; I don’t know him.
15. I just look back at my entire life. You know, my faith. I knew that I was where I was supposed to be.
16. I’ve had people say things to me like, ‘Don’t change.’ I don’t know how to be anything other than myself.
17. I love the trips that I’ve experienced as a player and a coach.
18. I have an MBA, but my Ph.D. is in people. Everything I do is about relationships.
19. 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.
20. 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.