Kirby Smart Quotes
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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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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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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 moved seven times the first seven years I coached.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 think you never leave what you learn.
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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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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 might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.
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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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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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Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships.
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My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it.
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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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I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback.
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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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I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works.
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It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching.