I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be perfect. So, when people point out I'm imperfect, so what? That's just who I am.
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.
I don't ever want to come in the locker room and have players in there pouting.
I just made a decision a long time ago: I'm not going to be defined by a scoreboard.
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.
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 think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.
No matter what's behind us in the rearview mirror, it's always about what's next.
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.
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 ain't never going to apologize for a 21-point win over a state rival, ever.
I've never seen myself as a second-class citizen.
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.
I thought, 'If I ever get a new football building, I want a slide.' Now I go down it every day.
I always told people Alabama was the smartest state because it has four As and a B.
Everybody runs, but only one wins first prize. So, run your race in such a way as to win.
There's nobody tougher on the players than me. Nobody.
I love the trips that I've experienced as a player and a coach.
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 just think there is a right way to do things, and I don't think two wrongs make a right.
