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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. "
Kirby Smart
Man
Want
Young
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" I don't think I've worked a day in my life. "
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" 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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" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
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" 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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" 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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" It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid. "
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" A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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Over
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" The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "
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Winning
" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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Education
Play
" 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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" What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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? "
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Football