Kirby Smart Quotes

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.

America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.

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.

In every sector of business, it's really hard to build something where you can get on a good run. In sports, it's even harder because you only have a small window for an athletic career.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically, or athletically.

I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

If you excel, there will always be teams interested in signing the biggest players.

UCLA will always be involved with great players, and those players always draw scrutiny. That's just the way it is.

I would love to bring the state of Utah their first championship. I think that's one thing I've always wanted.

I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

My relationships with the Duke coaches were the best, and they made me a priority.

I was a strength coach for over a year where our teams used CrossFit, and our football team won their first conference championship in 36 years!

I know that if I am playing at an all-pro level, our defense is playing well.

I had a little bit of expectations just to be not terrible, because you can't be named so similar to a sport and not be at least adequate at that sport. I don't think there's been expectations to be really good, because my parents never put that kind of pressure on me, but I had to be at least decent.

Nobody can tell me that if players are good enough, they will come through. That is not true. There are plenty of players who are good enough.

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If you don't have the best player in the world in the team, it would be strange if you didn't notice the difference.

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.

You always attempt to better yourself by getting good football players.

When I'm healthy and competing, I'm just a different type of player. That's the type of player everyone fell in love with.

Over the long term, it is definitely my ambition to play in the midfield.