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" It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid. "
Kirby Smart
Two
Georgia
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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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" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "
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" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Change is uncomfortable. "
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" My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program. "
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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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" 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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Pressure
" 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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" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "
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" I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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'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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" 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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