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" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
Kirby Smart
How
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" I think the growth you get from working at a place like Alabama and with a program under Nick Saban, it helps me immensely. "
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" I think it's what's best for that kid. Are you going to teach that kid a lesson for 10 years down the road by suspending him a game? "
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" The amount of pressure that I've put on myself as a defensive coordinator for the last 10, 11 years, I really believe there's a lot more decisions that go into that position than the head coach. "
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" Coach Saban's a great coach; he does it his way, and I have to do it my way. I have to cut my own cloth. "
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" I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust. "
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" The only thing that matters with my kids are them graduating and playing well, and I try to do my dangedest to get them to play well. "
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" Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships. "
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" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "
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" It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching. "
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" I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC. "
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" Coach Richt is a good friend of mine. I respect Coach Richt and worked for him for a year and respect the man he is and respect what he stands for. "
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" When you step out there on the field as a corner in our system, you have to be ready to play because humility is one week away. "
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" At the end of the day, if you're not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you're probably not going to win many championships. "
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End
Day
" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "
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Thing
" I've got recruits that will text and call and do everything in the middle of the night. And I'm thinking, 'I'm with my family.' But you've got to dedicate time to that, or you can't do it. "
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Night
Thinking
" There's a lot of people who think in order to be a good head coach, you've got to be a head coach at a smaller school. "
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School
You
People
" We've got to recruit at the same level of the people who are winning titles and playing for titles, and to do that, we've got to have great facilities. "
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Playing
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" It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid. "
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Two
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" It's never me against Saban, and I have too much respect for him to say that anyway. I never felt that way. "
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Too Much
Me
Never
" I moved seven times the first seven years I coached. "
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Seven
Years
Times
" What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing. "
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Team
Better
Getting Better
" I've been very fortunate to be with Coach Saban this long, learned a lot of football from him. It's been kind of the key to my personal success out of the places that I've coached. "
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Kind
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" A lot of people think our standard is to be first in the SEC, be first in the country, first in our red zone, and run defense. We really don't go by that motto. We go by, 'Be the best Alabama defense there's been.' "
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" It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement. "
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Twice
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" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
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Against
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" Change is uncomfortable. "
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" I think you never leave what you learn. "
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" It's always a danger when you've got a great quarterback that throws the ball well, that scrambles well. You may push him into his asset. You may force him to do what he does best. So you've got to be able to throw curveballs and stop the pass as much as stop the run. "
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" Every day I pull into that parking spot that says 'Head Football Coach,' I get out of my car and pinch myself sometimes, just to make sure it's real, sort of like, 'Is this really happening?' "
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Myself
Football