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" I don't think I've worked a day in my life. "
Kirby Smart
My Life
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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
Champions
" 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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Best
You
Think
" 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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You
Always
" Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships. "
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Honest
You
Winning
" 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
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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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You
Better
Boss
" My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it. "
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Wife
Loves
Happy
" 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
" 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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School
You
People
" Change is uncomfortable. "
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Uncomfortable
Change
" 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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Coach
You
Thinking
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Time
Night
Thinking
" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
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How
You
Well
" 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. "
Kirby Smart
Growth
People
School
" What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing. "
Kirby Smart
Team
Better
Getting Better
" 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. "
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Family
Coach
Same
" I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback. "
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Big
Quarterback
Offensive
" 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 ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "
Kirby Smart
Successful
You
Winning
" 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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My Own
Coach
Great
" You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football. "
Kirby Smart
Truth
You
Football
" It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid. "
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Two
Georgia
Recruiting
" 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
" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
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Recruit
Against
Georgia
" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
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Leaving
Worse
Recruiting
" 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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Think
Welcome
Confidence
" A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that. "
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Team
Together
Young
" I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "
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Career
Hey
Say