I was one of those kids who watched the Bear Bryant Show every Sunday, and every time Alabama played, I was listening on the radio. I'd fight you if you talked bad about Alabama.

I have an MBA, but my Ph.D. is in people. Everything I do is about relationships.

I love that about college football. I love all the funky matchups. I love the Funky Cold Medina Poulan Weed Eater Bowl. I love all of that. I like the crazy games. There's obviously a market for it because them TVs love to put it on there.

If my coach told me to go run them bleachers, you didn't ask no questions. I turned around and started running until he said stop.

Let's not be miserable when we win. There's definitely people in places that, even when they win, they're not happy. That's sad.

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 vision is for other schools to be like Clemson. My vision is to build a model program.

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.

A win is a win, and I've just always felt that way, and I've always been passionate about that.

I always tell people, good coaches are a dime a dozen. Good coaches that are good people, good husbands, good fathers, that love their players and are passionate about doing things in a way that I believe is important, that pool gets real small.

For me personally, joy comes from focusing on Jesus, others, and yourself.

For me, and I've been on record saying it, let's create two leagues: one for players who want the college football experience, and another for those that want to get paid, have the NFL help fund it, whatever. Guys who don't want to go to school to get an education, let them go to work.

I'm a big believer in the student-athlete part. I value the education and what it provides for you. Football is a vocation. Only 1.67 percent of these athletes go on to the NFL. An education provides you an opportunity for a career. A lot of people just don't get that. To say they aren't getting anything is misinformed.

When you win by three touchdowns in a state championship and you've got people who can't appreciate that? That's really sad.

I'm thankful for the experience and to be able to coach other young people on their journey through college football. It's a privilege.

I've never really hired anybody that people thought I should hire.

I just think there is a right way to do things, and I don't think two wrongs make a right.

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.

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.