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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Play within the system. Be a decision maker.

All we can do is evaluate what we see in practice.

Life is not what you wish it to be, rather it’s what you make it.

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God

One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing.

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.

I hope that not one of them ever wanna even think about boxing.