Dabo Swinney Quotes

United States, American Football Manager
November 20, 1969

William Christopher "Dabo" Swinney is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach at Clemson University. Swinney took over as head coach for the Clemson Tigers midway through the 2008 season, following the resignation of Tommy Bowden. Swinney led the 2016 Clemson Tigers football team to a victory in the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship, capturing a national championship. Swinney has the 2nd most wins in Clemson history behind only Frank Howard.

You can't be afraid to play. Commit to play and you live with the results.

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- Live
Every game is huge and every game will count when it's all said and done.

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- Done
- Game

Every game is critical.

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- Game
I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

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I love the Bowl system. I've always been a proponent of the Bowl system. I think it's been great for college football, for this level.

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- Great
- College
- Football
Whatever results you get, learn and grow from it and move on to the next one.

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To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer.

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Sometimes you just have things within your team that you have to address, and I think you have to protect your culture a little bit. And sometimes it's sitting a guy down and that's just the way it will always be.

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- Guy
- Culture
- Team

The opener is always very difficult every single year. It Really doesn't matter whom you play. The opener is difficult because you've got more time to prepare for one game than you do any game the rest of the year because you've got all spring, all summer to prepare for this opponent.

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- Time
- Game
- Single
You have strengths within your team every single year and sometimes they stay the same, sometimes they change.

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- Team
- Single
You know how ESPN works; they'll throw themselves into a frenzy over Tebow's white bread lame ass niceness and then vilify Johnny Football just 'cause he rages now and then.

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- Football
Play within the system. Be a decision maker.

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- Decision
You can only get so far from an evaluation standpoint in practice, and you know, at some point, you've got to go play and kind of take that next step in the evaluation of just where you are and then grow and make adjustments as you go throughout the year.

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- Practice
I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

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- Good

It takes a lot to be Dabo Swinney, and not everyone can live this lifestyle. But, boy is it fun.

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- Live
- Fun
- Boy
All we can do is evaluate what we see in practice.

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- Practice
The media wants a nice guy, so I can give that to them. I figured I could be myself in this interview since no one's gonna read this JV newspaper.

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- Guy
- Nice
Any time you have coaching changes and things like that, you go and study everything.

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- Time
- Study
- Coaching