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" Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships. "
Kirby Smart
Honest
You
Winning
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest. "
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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 ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Playing
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" I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "
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Hey
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" I think you never leave what you learn. "
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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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" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
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You
Well
" 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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Friend
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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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Best
Goal
Recruiting
" 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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Recruiting
Head
" I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback. "
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" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
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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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" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "
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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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Every Day
" 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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Me
Never
" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
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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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