I moved seven times the first seven years I coached.

Kirby Smart

Categorized in : First Times Years Seven

It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement.

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At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform.

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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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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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How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.

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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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My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it.

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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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Every day I pull into that parking spot that says 'Head Football Coach,' I get out of my car and pinch myself sometimes, just to make sure it's real, sort of like, 'Is this really happening?'

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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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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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Change is uncomfortable.

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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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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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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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I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.

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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 could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.'

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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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