Dabo Swinney Quotes

The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.

It's different in the NFL because you're getting paid to get hit. In college, you're taking hits for someone else to make money.

The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.

Years ago, the NFL influenced what happened in college. It's the other way around now.

It is bizarre to see the NFL attacking an America that has treated it so well over the years. Taxpayers pay over 70 percent of the cost of stadiums. Our citizens pay more and more for tickets, and valuations of professional sports franchises have skyrocketed. Player compensation keeps growing.

I thought my freshman year at the University of Miami, I was balling, I was looking forward to the NFL.

I am a head coach in the NFL today because of the opportunity the Coaching Fellowship provided me. The program is really the thing that jump-starts your career.

The God's truth: I never much cared for Tebow when he played at Florida.

When you get into these NFL rushers - the power, the speed, the bull rush, and all those kind of things - it's just different than college football.

Texas is a great program. The respect they gave me was amazing.

I haven't been in a position to be a free agent or know what that is like and then to have the chance to go where you want to go. That's always been - I feel, with players, they want that option.

The NFL cares about one thing, and that's the NFL. That's the bottom line.

It's the same mindset I had in college. As long as I come in and work every day, it worked in college and I'm just going to continue to grind my tail off here in the NFL.

You see a lot of smaller-school guys go to the NFL and have success: Carson Wentz, Derek Carr for example.

What I love about our league is that players have an opportunity in their career to be a free agent and decide where they want to invest their time and their talent, in whatever team and whatever system. They deserve that right. They've earned that right.

Every player is free to decide over their future, just like the clubs can decide who they keep.

The number of starting quarterbacks in the NFL from Texas speaks for itself.

Let's face it. My dad was a mechanic, and my mom was a cop: my college options in seventh grade didn't look that great. And the chance I got to go to college and experience college life is something that's pretty precious to me.

I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.

College was such a pivotal time for me. It's a time when you have so much growth, and you kind of can choose one of many different paths.

Playing in the NFL isn't really - and shouldn't have to be - every black boy's dream. But black boys don't always know that their dreams off the field matter.

I do follow the NFL. It took me a while to get back into it, but I do follow it religiously now. Huge Packers and Steelers fan.

I understand the business of the NFL.

I wasn't supposed to run as much as I did in the NFL. But it turned out that all that scrambling I had done in college became necessary in the NFL. It wasn't by design. It was because I was running for my life!

I love the NFL. Everything that I really have is because of the NFL... but every idea that the NFL pitched is not a great idea.