Kirby Smart Quotes

I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.

A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.

The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.

I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.

I want to thank the people at UMass, Memphis, and Kentucky for giving Ellen and I an opportunity to coach at three great institutions.

It's nice to work with your own alma mater.

I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.

I still bleed purple and gold, so it was a no-brainer for me to go to LSU.

I knew if I got an offer from Alabama, that's where I wanted to go... just because I liked what they stood for. I liked that they were winning.

I am fully committed to Ohio State, the football program, as long as I can.

I want to bring a Big 12 championship to Tech.

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 a lot of people who think in order to be a good head coach, you've got to be a head coach at a smaller school.

Even at North Dakota State, football is a big deal.

There are great days ahead for the University of Maryland football program, and I hope I have helped to put the program in a better place than it was when I first got there.

I really miss Syracuse and the guys on the team.

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach

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

No one would have ever thought College GameDay would be coming to the University of Houston, I know that.

There is no question that Notre Dame has the best, biggest and finest name in college football.

I go back to Francis Schmidt. Francis Schmidt was the Ohio State coach who hired me.

I know how great Alabama is. I know how great Coach Nick Saban is, and I enjoy being around his program. I will continue to enjoy being around his program.

I want the University of Florida to be successful. I'm always going to be a Gator, unless I'm on the other sideline.

When I was at Oklahoma, I didn't think it could get any bigger than that.

It still comes down to attracting players, and UCLA can attract players as well as any place in the country.