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" I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback. "
Kirby Smart
Big
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" 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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" You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football. "
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You
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" I moved seven times the first seven years I coached. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "
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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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Kind
Key
" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
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" 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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Growth
People
School
" 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
" 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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Play
Playing
" 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
" 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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You
Think
" Change is uncomfortable. "
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Uncomfortable
Change
" It's never me against Saban, and I have too much respect for him to say that anyway. I never felt that way. "
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Too Much
Me
Never
" 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
" 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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" 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
" 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 could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "
Kirby Smart
Career
Hey
Say
" What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing. "
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Team
Better
Getting Better
" 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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Like
You
Always
" 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
" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
Kirby Smart
Leaving
Worse
Recruiting
" 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
Day
" 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
" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "
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Works
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" When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest. "
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