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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. "

Kirby Smart

Growth

People

School

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Know

Your

" It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement. "

" Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I've worked a day in my life. "

" Our personalities are the not the same, Coach Saban and I. And I have the utmost respect for what he's done and what he's done for me and my family. "

" My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it. "

" What you have success with, you feel comfortable with, you always rely on that a little bit. "

" It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program. "

" To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there. "

" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "

" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "

" I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "

" I've seen Coach Saban over the years have to make a lot of tough decisions, and there's not one decision he doesn't make that he doesn't bounce ideas off the staff. To me, that's invaluable. "

Kirby Smart

Decision

Tough

" It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid. "

" What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing. "

" 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. "

Kirby Smart

Decisions

Pressure

" 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. "

" It's never me against Saban, and I have too much respect for him to say that anyway. I never felt that way. "

Kirby Smart

Too Much

Never

" 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. "

" Change is uncomfortable. "

Kirby Smart

Uncomfortable

Change

" Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships. "

" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "

" I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback. "

" 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?' "