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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. "

Kirby Smart

Time

Night

Thinking

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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. "

Kirby Smart

Decisions

Pressure

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "

" 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

Never

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement. "

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

" 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

" A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that. "

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

" I moved seven times the first seven years I coached. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships. "