Kirby Smart

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.

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

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.

It's a lot more important to get quality young men and good student-athletes that can be successful at the University of Georgia. That's my No. 1 goal.

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

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

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

A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that.

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.

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?