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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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" My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it. "

" 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. "

" Change is uncomfortable. "

" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think you never leave what you learn. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football. "

" 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. "

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

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