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" A lot of people have said, 'Why not take a smaller school head job?' I honestly feel my growth was better being in a large program, being around Coach Saban, and learning how to manage a lot of the tough situations you deal with in the media. "
Growth
People
School
" 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.' "
Motto
Best
People
" A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that. "
Team
Together
Young
" 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. "
End Of The Day
End
Day
" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "
You
End Of The Day
Go
" Change is uncomfortable. "
Uncomfortable
Change
" 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. "
Good
Friend
Man
" 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. "
My Own
Coach
Great
" Every college coach I talk to won't say it on record, but everyone's thinking, 'Should I go to the league?' Because you don't have the same requirements. It's different. The hours are different. "
Coach
You
Thinking
" 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?' "
Car
Myself
Football
" Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players. "
Been
Football
Men
" Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place. "
Man
Want
Young
" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
How
You
Well
" I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC. "
Like
You
Always
" I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "
Career
Hey
Say
" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "
Believe
Works
Thing
" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
Recruit
Against
Georgia
" I don't think I've worked a day in my life. "
My Life
Life
Think
" I felt like I was selling a product of the University of Georgia that's really special and really special to me as far as the education you can get, the development you can get, and the league we play in. That's what I've sold. "
You
Education
Play
" If you chart SEC champions over a 20-year period, the one consistent thing to me is you're not going to win if you don't have a quarterback. It's too critical of a position. He decides something every play. "
Win
Over
Champions
" I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback. "
Big
Quarterback
Offensive
" I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor. "
Coach
Recruiting
Head
" I moved seven times the first seven years I coached. "
Seven
Years
Times
" I think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what's best for the player. And you say what's best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that. "
Best
Game
Think
" I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust. "
Push
Want
Think
" 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? "
Best
You
Think
" I think the growth you get from working at a place like Alabama and with a program under Nick Saban, it helps me immensely. "
Me
Growth
Place
" I think you never leave what you learn. "
Never
Think
I Think
" It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching. "
College
Cell Phone
Coaching
" It's a lot more important to get quality young men and good student-athletes that can be successful at the University of Georgia. That's my No. 1 goal. "
Men
Good
Successful
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