Top 30 Kirby Smart Quotes

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

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

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.

I’m a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback.

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

The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who’ve done that have had opportunities.

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

It’s very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid.

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.

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?’

I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.

It’s always a danger when you’ve got a great quarterback that throws the ball well, that scrambles well. You may push him into his asset. You may force him to do what he does best. So you’ve got to be able to throw curveballs and stop the pass as much as stop the run.

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.

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.

I’ve seen Coach Saban over the years have to make a lot of tough decisions, and there’s not one decision he doesn’t make that he doesn’t bounce ideas off the staff. To me, that’s invaluable.

I think you never leave what you learn.

I don’t think I’ve worked a day in my life.

When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest.

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.

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.

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.

What I’m worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That’s the most important thing.

Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place.

I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we’ve got to have their trust.

I moved seven times the first seven years I coached.

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?

Change is uncomfortable.

There’s nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player.

I don’t believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don’t think that works.

Every kid I’ve been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.