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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. "
Kirby Smart
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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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" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "
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" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Night
Thinking
" 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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Playing
" 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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" 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's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid. "
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" 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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Game
Think
" When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest. "
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" I think you never leave what you learn. "
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Think
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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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Coach
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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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Think
Welcome
Confidence
" 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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Say
Run
" Change is uncomfortable. "
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Change
" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
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Recruiting
" 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 could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "
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Hey
Say
" 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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Ready
Play
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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 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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Place
" Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships. "
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You
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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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Boss
" My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it. "
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Loves
Happy
" 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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Day
Better
Every Day
" 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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Coach
Same
" 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
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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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