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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

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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

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Never

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

" 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. "

" I don't think I've worked a day in my life. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program. "

" 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. "

" I think you never leave what you learn. "

" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "

Kirby Smart

You

End Of The Day

" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "

" I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC. "

Kirby Smart

You

Always

" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "

" 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. "

" The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "

" 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. "

" 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. "