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" 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
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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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" The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "
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" Coach Saban's a great coach; he does it his way, and I have to do it my way. I have to cut my own cloth. "
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" I moved seven times the first seven years I coached. "
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" I think you never leave what you learn. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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? "
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" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
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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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" 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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" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "
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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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" It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid. "
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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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" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
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" 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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" When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest. "
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" 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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" 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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