Kirby Smart

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

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

Our personalities are the not the same, Coach Saban and I. And I have the utmost respect for what he's done and what he's done for me and my family.

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

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.

Change is uncomfortable.

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.

To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there.

I moved seven times the first seven years I coached.

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.

It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching.

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.