Quotes from Kirby Smart

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

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

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.

You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football.

It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships.

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.

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.

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

I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.

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