Kirby Smart Quotes
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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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How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.
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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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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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I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.'
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There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player.
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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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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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At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform.
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I don't think I've worked a day in my life.
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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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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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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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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'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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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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You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football.
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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.