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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. "

Kirby Smart

End Of The Day

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

" I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC. "

Kirby Smart

You

Always

" I think you never leave what you learn. "

" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "

" 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. "

" I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust. "

" It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football. "

" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "

Kirby Smart

You

End Of The Day

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

" The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "

" I think the growth you get from working at a place like Alabama and with a program under Nick Saban, it helps me immensely. "

Kirby Smart

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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. "

Kirby Smart

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "

Kirby Smart

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" When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest. "

" 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. "

" My goal is to outwork everybody in recruiting, sign the best players in the state, and turn these guys into the best team we can. "