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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. "

Kirby Smart

Day

Better

Every Day

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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. "

" 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

Too Much

Never

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

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

" 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 never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching. "

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

" You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust. "

" 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 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 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. "

" A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that. "

" Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Kirby Smart

Decision

Tough

" 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. "

" Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships. "

" 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?' "