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" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "
Kirby Smart
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" 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. "
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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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" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I don't think I've worked a day in my life. "
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Life
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" 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. "
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Better
Every Day
" 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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Growth
Place
" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "
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Believe
Works
Thing
" 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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Car
Myself
Football
" 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. "
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Game
Think
" 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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Ready
Play
Humility
" I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor. "
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Coach
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" 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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People
Playing
Same
" 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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Success
Kind
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" 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. "
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You
Education
Play
" 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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You
Best
Great
" Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players. "
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Been
Football
Men
" It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement. "
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Mistakes
Twice
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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
" To be honest, it makes you a lot better coach when your boss is in the meeting room. You're a lot more driven every day. "
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You
Better
Boss
" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
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Leaving
Worse
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" Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place. "
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Want
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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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Push
Want
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" It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program. "
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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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Pressure
" 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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College
Cell Phone
Coaching
" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
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