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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. "
Kirby Smart
Too Much
Me
Never
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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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" A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that. "
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" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
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" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "
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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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" 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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" 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 your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "
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" I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "
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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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School
" 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
Thinking
" 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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" 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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Cell Phone
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" I think you never leave what you learn. "
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Think
I Think
" My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it. "
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Wife
Loves
Happy
" 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
" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
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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 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
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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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" 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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