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Kirby Smart
American
Coach
Born:
Dec 23
,
1975
Best
Better
Coach
Me
Think
You
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I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.
Kirby Smart
Recruit
Georgia
Against
Nick
University
It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching.
Kirby Smart
Death
You
Cell Phone
Phone
College
Never
Recruiting
Got
Cell
Stops
Coaching
How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.
Kirby Smart
You
Practice
Well
How
Prepare
Play
My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it.
Kirby Smart
Family
Happy
Wife
Loves
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.
Kirby Smart
You
Field
Corner
Humility
Our
System
Out
Week
Step
Because
Ready
Away
Play
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.
Kirby Smart
Education
Me
You
Sold
Development
League
Like
Felt
Georgia
Selling
Get
As Far As
Far
Really
Product
Special
Play
University
Change is uncomfortable.
Kirby Smart
Change
Uncomfortable
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.
Kirby Smart
Me
You
Win
Every
Too
Consistent
Critical
Something
Chart
He
Over
Period
Quarterback
Going
Decide
Play
Thing
SEC
Champions
Position
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.
Kirby Smart
Best
You
Game
Better
Think
Say
Willing
Be Different
Case
Give
Him
May
Suspension
Different
Coach
Each
Player
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?
Kirby Smart
Best
You
Game
Down
Lesson
Think
Kid
Road
Him
Years
Going
Teach
Down The Road
I moved seven times the first seven years I coached.
Kirby Smart
First
Seven
Years
Times
Moved
Coached
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.
Kirby Smart
You
College
Every
Thinking
Everyone
Say
Record
League
Hours
Talk
Because
Go
Same
Different
Coach
Should
Requirements
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.
Kirby Smart
Good
You
People
School
Think
Head
Head Coach
Smaller
Got
Lot
Order
Coach
Who
It's never me against Saban, and I have too much respect for him to say that anyway. I never felt that way.
Kirby Smart
Me
Respect
Too Much
Too
Way
Say
Never
Him
Felt
Anyway
Against
Much
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.
Kirby Smart
Good
Man
Respect
Year
Mine
He
Him
Friend
Worked
Coach
Stands
Good Friend
What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing.
Kirby Smart
Better
Important
Our
Worried
About
Developing
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Getting
Getting Better
The Most Important
Team
Thing
Players
When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest.
Kirby Smart
You
Rest
About
Never
Talk
Get
SEC
Chance
I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback.
Kirby Smart
Big
Come
Big Believer
Limitations
Quarterback
Offensive
Your
Believer
It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program.
Kirby Smart
Better
College
Say
Run
College Football
Football
Major
Gets
Any
Your
Hard
Program
Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place.
Kirby Smart
Man
Young
Every
Georgia
Graduate
Want
Place
Young Man
Them
Bring
Here
University
I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.
Kirby Smart
You
Recruit
Head
Head Coach
Like
Felt
Always
Coach
Niches
SEC
I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.
Kirby Smart
National
Factor
Recruiting
Had
Head
Head Coach
National Championship
Conference
Might
Coach
Championship
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.
Kirby Smart
Try
Matters
Kids
Only
Well
Get
Graduating
The Only Thing
Them
Play
Thing
Playing
To be honest, it makes you a lot better coach when your boss is in the meeting room. You're a lot more driven every day.
Kirby Smart
Day
You
Every Day
Better
To Be Honest
Every
Meeting
Boss
More
Driven
Makes
Lot
Room
Coach
Your
Honest
I don't think I've worked a day in my life.
Kirby Smart
Life
Day
My Life
Think
Worked
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