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Dabo Swinney Embrace the Suck

7 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Dabo Swinney on why you have to embrace hard work and fall in love with preparation to achieve anything great. He calls it 'embrace the suck': the willingness to do the grinding, unglamorous work that separates people who make it from people who don't.

With that. You got to embrace the suck, right? There's a lot of it that just sucks. And you got it. You got to fall in love with that part. If you're going to. If you're going to, you know, do anything great in life, it's not going to just happen. So the preparation and falling in love with the preparation, all the great players that I've been around, that's what separates them. They love the preparation. Everybody loves to play. Yeah, right. But it's falling in love and embracing the suck along the way, that's what separates us.