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" What you have success with, you feel comfortable with, you always rely on that a little bit. "
Kirby Smart
Feel
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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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Football
" 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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" Change is uncomfortable. "
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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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Every Day
" 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
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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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" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "
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Know
Your
" 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
" I don't think I've worked a day in my life. "
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Life
Think
" I moved seven times the first seven years I coached. "
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Seven
Years
Times
" 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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Me
Growth
Place
" 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. "
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People
Playing
Same
" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
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How
You
Well
" 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
" Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships. "
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Honest
You
Winning
" 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
" I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust. "
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Push
Want
Think
" When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest. "
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You
Talk
Chance
" I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback. "
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Big
Quarterback
Offensive
" I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor. "
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Coach
Recruiting
Head
" 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.' "
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Motto
Best
People
" 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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School
You
People
" 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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Win
Over
Champions
" 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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You
Better
Boss
" 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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End Of The Day
End
Day
" 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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Best
You
Think
" 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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Been
Football
Men
" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "
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Believe
Works
Thing
" 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
Great
" 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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