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" Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players. "
Kirby Smart
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Football
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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
" 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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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. "
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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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You
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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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Man
Want
Young
" 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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Matters
Play
Playing
" Change is uncomfortable. "
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Uncomfortable
Change
" 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. "
Kirby Smart
Time
Night
Thinking
" 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.' "
Kirby Smart
Motto
Best
People
" You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football. "
Kirby Smart
Truth
You
Football
" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "
Kirby Smart
You
End Of The Day
Go
" 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
Go
Pressure
" 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 Of The Day
End
Day
" 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
Me
Decision
Tough
" It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid. "
Kirby Smart
Two
Georgia
Recruiting
" 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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Football
Say
Run
" My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it. "
Kirby Smart
Wife
Loves
Happy
" 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. "
Kirby Smart
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?' "
Kirby Smart
Car
Myself
Football
" 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. "
Kirby Smart
Family
Coach
Same
" 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. "
Kirby Smart
People
Playing
Same
" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
Kirby Smart
Recruit
Against
Georgia
" It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement. "
Kirby Smart
Mistakes
Twice
Improvement
" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
Kirby Smart
How
You
Well
" I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust. "
Kirby Smart
Push
Want
Think
" 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. "
Kirby Smart
Day
Better
Every Day
" 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? "
Kirby Smart
Best
You
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 think you never leave what you learn. "
Kirby Smart
Never
Think
I Think
" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "
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Know
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