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" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" I moved seven times the first seven years I coached. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" A lot of people have said, 'Why not take a smaller school head job?' I honestly feel my growth was better being in a large program, being around Coach Saban, and learning how to manage a lot of the tough situations you deal with in the media. "

" 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. "

" Change is uncomfortable. "

" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "

" 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. "

" Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" What you have success with, you feel comfortable with, you always rely on that a little bit. "

" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "