Kirby Smart Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 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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The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities.
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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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My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it.
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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 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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I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback.
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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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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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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 might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.
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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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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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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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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.