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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. "
Kirby Smart
You
Better
Boss
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" It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid. "
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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. "
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" My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Change is uncomfortable. "
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" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
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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 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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" 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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" I felt like I was selling a product of the University of Georgia that's really special and really special to me as far as the education you can get, the development you can get, and the league we play in. That's what I've sold. "
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Coach
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" 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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Play
Playing
" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
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Against
Georgia
" 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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" 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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