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.
We're all going to experience death and failure and setbacks and disappointments and cancer and, you know, it's a really difficult world. And for me, God has always - in my relationship with Christ - He's given me hope and peace.
I don't think it's good to be a distraction to your team.
God creates us to compete. He creates us to win. It matters. But you've got no chance if you don't do your best.
It's the journey to get there. It's that moment in that locker room when you're with a group of people that have gotten it done. There's nothing like it. If you could bottle that up and take that out in the world, you'd dominate.
If Alabama were 8-4, they'd still be dominating the conversation.
My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.
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.
I'm not a sympathetic guy when I see people throwing their lives away and using their life's obstacles as excuses to fail. I just don't buy into that.
I was the first one in my family to go to college.
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.
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.
There's a lot of good police officers. There's thousands of perfect traffic stops. Lot of good men. Lot of good women. But those don't get the stories.
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.
When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.
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.
All I know is, there's nothing we can't do at Clemson. I don't have to go somewhere else to win at the highest level, to recruit great players, to have great support - I really don't. I'm just really fortunate.
I've never really hired anybody that people thought I should hire.
Trust me, people that know me know I ain't perfect, but I do try to live my life in a way that hopefully can be pleasing to my maker because I know I'm going to meet Him one day, and He's not going to pat me on the back and talk about how many wins I had or how many Coach of the Year trophies we got or how much money I made.
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.'
