Everybody runs, but only one wins first prize. So, run your race in such a way as to win.

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.

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.

In recruiting, you talk about anything and everything a recruit wants to talk about that seems relevant.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

My dad was the biggest Alabama fan ever, and I was brainwashed.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I've never failed at anything in my life.

I don't think it's good to be a distraction to your team.

There's nobody tougher on the players than me. Nobody.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.'

We work too hard to be miserable.

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

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

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

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

I know the price I've paid to be where I am.

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

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.

My job is to recruit the best players I can recruit. When they get here, challenge them and grow them into their best version.

I'm a wimp. I'm from Alabama. I don't like the cold.

I'm the biggest pansy you've ever seen.

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.

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.

I'm not a 'more is better' guy.

I love the trips that I've experienced as a player and a coach.

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.

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.

I don't ever want to come in the locker room and have players in there pouting.

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

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.

When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.

My father figures were my coaches.

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.

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.

I've never seen myself as a second-class citizen.