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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? "
Kirby Smart
Best
You
Think
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" It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid. "
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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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" 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 very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement. "
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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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" We've got to recruit at the same level of the people who are winning titles and playing for titles, and to do that, we've got to have great facilities. "
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" When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest. "
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" What you have success with, you feel comfortable with, you always rely on that a little bit. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "
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Hey
Say
" 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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Growth
Place
" 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. "
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Best
Great
" It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program. "
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" Coach Richt is a good friend of mine. I respect Coach Richt and worked for him for a year and respect the man he is and respect what he stands for. "
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Good
Friend
Man
" 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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Want
Think
" 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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Coach
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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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Know
Your
" 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. "
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People
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" 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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Night
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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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You
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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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Coach
You
Thinking
" 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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Game
Think
" Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players. "
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Football
Men
" 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
" 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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