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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.
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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.
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When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.
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I want to get to the top. I want to be the best. But I want to do it the right way and to enjoy the whole deal.
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I don't ever want to come in the locker room and have players in there pouting.
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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.
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I hate the fact that, all of a sudden now, it's not cool to go to the Gator Bowl. Are you kidding me? I don't like that mindset.
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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.
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I'm just telling you: I don't know what the heck I'm talking about - I'm just an old funky college coach - but Deshaun Watson is the best by a long shot.
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My job is to recruit the best players I can recruit. When they get here, challenge them and grow them into their best version.
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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.
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I've had people say things to me like, 'Don't change.' I don't know how to be anything other than myself.
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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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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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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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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.'
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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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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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The key to coaching is love. It's not knowledge; it's not discipline. If you love 'em, you can discipline them. If you love 'em, you can yell at them and laugh about it later.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In recruiting, you talk about anything and everything a recruit wants to talk about that seems relevant.
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