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" When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest. "
Kirby Smart
You
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Chance
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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. "
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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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" I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC. "
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" Change is uncomfortable. "
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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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" What you have success with, you feel comfortable with, you always rely on that a little bit. "
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" 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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" 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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" Every college coach I talk to won't say it on record, but everyone's thinking, 'Should I go to the league?' Because you don't have the same requirements. It's different. The hours are different. "
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" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "
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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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" 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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" The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "
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" 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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Recruiting
Head
" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "
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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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People
School
" A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that. "
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Together
Young
" 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
" I've been very fortunate to be with Coach Saban this long, learned a lot of football from him. It's been kind of the key to my personal success out of the places that I've coached. "
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Kind
Key
" 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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Decision
Tough
" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "
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End Of The Day
Go
" 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
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Coaching
" 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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" 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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Better
Getting Better
" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "
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Against
Georgia
" It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid. "
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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
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Best
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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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You
Think
" 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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Pressure