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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. "

Kirby Smart

Win

Over

Champions

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" I think the growth you get from working at a place like Alabama and with a program under Nick Saban, it helps me immensely. "

Kirby Smart

Growth

Place

" 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?' "

" Change is uncomfortable. "

Kirby Smart

Uncomfortable

Change

" What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Kirby Smart

Know

Your

" I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor. "

" I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Kirby Smart

You

Always

" 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. "

" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "

Kirby Smart

You

End Of The Day

" 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. "

Kirby Smart

Decision

Tough

" The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "

" Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players. "

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