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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. "
Kirby Smart
Best
Goal
Recruiting
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" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "
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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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" 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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" I moved seven times the first seven years I coached. "
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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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" It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "
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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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Head
" 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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" 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 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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" 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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