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" I think you never leave what you learn. "
Kirby Smart
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" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
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Against
Georgia
" What you have success with, you feel comfortable with, you always rely on that a little bit. "
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Feel
Success
You
" 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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Education
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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
" You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football. "
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Truth
You
Football
" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "
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Believe
Works
Thing
" It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching. "
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College
Cell Phone
Coaching
" 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
" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
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Leaving
Worse
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'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
" 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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Motto
Best
People
" 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
" 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
" 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
" It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement. "
Kirby Smart
Mistakes
Twice
Improvement
" 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
" 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. "
Kirby Smart
Think
Welcome
Confidence
" 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. "
Kirby Smart
Men
Good
Successful
" 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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Been
Football
Men
" When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest. "
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You
Talk
Chance
" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
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How
You
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. "
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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
" 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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Man
Want
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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Successful
You
Winning
" 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
" 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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You
Best
Great
" 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