Kirby Smart Quotes

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years, history has proven if your number one quarterback goes down, your chances for success become very limited.

Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.

Any team, if you can rattle the quarterback you have an opportunity to win the game.

What Barcelona almost always do is play a good game, but we don't always win.

If your quarterback can't make plays in certain situations for you to win games, he's not getting the job done.

The biggest thing you need to be successful with it is a quarterback who wants to be involved in the decision-making process and not just merely want to execute plays sent in to him.

The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.

The only model to me that correlates with big success in the NFL is having a Hall of Fame franchise quarterback.

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn't offset the interception or the fumble.

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

If you're a quarterback and you keep throwing interceptions, you change quarterbacks.

There are times when the criticism is something you deserve as a quarterback, and there are times when the people doing the criticizing don't know what they're talking about.

Football is not just about spending money.

No quarterback goes out there and plays well on his own.

Look at guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Those guys have great arms, but people talk about them more as a quarterbacks and the intellectual side of the game and how they really dissect defenses - and then the arm is something else that helps them with that.

I'm a drop-back passer, and those seldom win Heismans.

That's what we're here for as quarterbacks is to help our team win, lead the offense down the field and put points on the board.