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" 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. "
Kirby Smart
People
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" 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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Tough
" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
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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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" I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "
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Say
" 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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Over
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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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Men
Good
Successful
" What you have success with, you feel comfortable with, you always rely on that a little bit. "
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You
" 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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Time
Night
Thinking
" 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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College
Cell Phone
Coaching
" 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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Matters
Play
Playing
" 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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Too Much
Me
Never
" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
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Recruit
Against
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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. "
Kirby Smart
Growth
People
School
" 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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Team
Better
Getting Better
" My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it. "
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Wife
Loves
Happy
" 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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Man
Want
Young
" The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "
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Successful
You
Winning
" 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
Humility
" 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. "
Kirby Smart
Think
Welcome
Confidence
" You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football. "
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Truth
You
Football
" I don't think I've worked a day in my life. "
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Life
Think
" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "
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Believe
Works
Thing
" 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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You
Think
" I moved seven times the first seven years I coached. "
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Seven
Years
Times
" I think you never leave what you learn. "
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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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