Kirby Smart Quotes
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There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player.
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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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Our personalities are the not the same, Coach Saban and I. And I have the utmost respect for what he's done and what he's done for me and my family.
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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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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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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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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'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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I think you never leave what you learn.
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When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest.
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My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it.
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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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I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works.
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A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that.
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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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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.
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Change is uncomfortable.
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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.