Dabo Swinney Quotes

For me, it's not really about showing the coaches. It's about being accountable, being accountable for my own actions and continuing to do what I've been doing since I got here.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

Sometimes you've got to just dig down deep and be accountable for the role that you have on the team.

If you want to work as a head coach and to lead a group of people there is no option to feel sorry for yourself or to complain about fate conspiring against you.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

The coaches can't be out there to tackle for us; we have to do that, like I say, starting with myself.

To point the finger at one guy, at each other or at the coaches, won't do any good. It's not supposed to be the coach. It's our team. The coaches can do a phenomenal job preparing you, but it has to come from within.

If you are going to do things in your life and be responsible for your career, then be responsible for your career. You are responsible for your success.

I remember so clearly as a kid, my biggest problem in life was I used to never follow up on anything.

Nobody can take you out of something, especially if you're the one who started it.

There comes a time in everybody's life when it's no longer enough to point and say he or she should do it, but you have to answer yourself... That's why I put myself at the party's service.

I realize everything's on me as far as what kind of player, person, and student I'm going to be.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.