Kirby Smart Quotes

Coach Bo Pelini and coach Carl Pelini are two coaches I talk to on a regular basis, especially coach Bo. They are coaches I feel elevated my game.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

I've watched what coaches do for young people in our country.

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.

Good coaches, as we all know, can have amazing influences on boys.

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

I want to teach the young people the way I see football. The way I eat, the way I am in training.

I've learned so much at PSV, not only on the pitch but also as a person.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

Sports not only build better athletes but also better people.

I wish football, as a culture, bred more than just a football player. It has the ability to be an incubator and transition players properly.

I've spent my entire life around coaches.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

I think all coaches look at it as a major part of our job: to build young men, not just ball players. To put the right things in front of them, and help them mature as men, not just as players.