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" I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "
Kirby Smart
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" I don't think I've worked a day in my life. "
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" 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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" My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it. "
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" 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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" A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that. "
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Young
" The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "
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" You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football. "
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You
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" 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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" 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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Day
" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
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Georgia
" 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
Improvement
" I think you never leave what you learn. "
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Think
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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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Best
People
" 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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Team
Better
Getting Better
" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "
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End Of The Day
Go
" 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
Think
" 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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Best
Game
Think
" 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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You
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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
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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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Like
You
Always
" 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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Men
Good
Successful
" 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
" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
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Leaving
Worse
Recruiting
" 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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Day
Better
Every Day
" 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
Recruiting
Head
" 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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Decisions
Go
Pressure
" 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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" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "
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Like
Know
Your
" 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
Key
" 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