Quotes

The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.

When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don't do that, it's like killing your musical life.

The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.

I've been a brat all of my life, and I've always wanted to do things my way, because that's what works best with me. I'm true to myself.

I've been broke my whole life, you get what I'm saying? I'm scared of the bank.

It's just the way I'm set up, being that once-in-a-generation, once-in-a-lifetime, once-in-an-era type of star.

Early on in my life, I got two older brothers; we used to listen to Eminem, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne.

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.

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.'

I've never failed at anything in my life.

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.

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.

It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.

I just look back at my entire life. You know, my faith. I knew that I was where I was supposed to be.

My entire life, nothing's been easy. This is the way it ought to be.

You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away.

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 bullied in high school, and it's interesting coming from the other side of the camera lens, finding out that all of these people that I thought were my antagonists in my life were probably just as insecure as I was at that age.

You can't always be by the book every single day of your life.

It's one huge arc right until you're in your early 20s. You're always changing and always learning, but it's very much that chapter in your life: fall crazy in love, become extremely angry at little things. It's a tumultuous time.

True it is that each of us has only one life - but how many of us 'die a thousand deaths' in fear and nervousness!

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.