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.

You don't beat football teams. You outrecruit them.

I think we can benefit from being in the ACC. It's a great basketball league. If anything, it helps our recruiting.

If I could hire a coach in this country and I could get Tony Bennett, there would be nobody in second place. Nobody.

Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships.

Dumb and tough goes a long way in this sport but to be elite, you've got to be smarter.

I think if you can find competitive people, they'll make any environment that they go to winners.

I have always said that great players must always play for the great clubs.

It's really important at United that you've been brought up with that winning mentality.

It doesn't change whether it's Georgia, Clemson or Florida or Tennessee. You have to fight out there on the recruiting trail every day. And recruiting's a lot like shaving: If you don't do it every day, you start looking like a bum.

The opportunity at NASCAR will continue to be such that the best talent wants to be here.

Growth is essential to attracting the best and most sophisticated talent.

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

For us as a firm, not only from a risk mitigation standpoint but also as a point of differentiation, it is incredibly important to get consistency and the very best individuals with the capabilities to do the very best job.

All I know is, there's nothing we can't do at Clemson. I don't have to go somewhere else to win at the highest level, to recruit great players, to have great support - I really don't. I'm just really fortunate.

Coach Calipari pushes his players, and that's why his teams are successful.

The expectation at United is to win every game and you have to be at your very best in training, never mind in the games.

You can be one inch from the national team and the opportunity to make so much money and a life out of it. That's why people hang on so long.

As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.

Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool.

I joined the board of Etsy when it was just three founders, and I helped recruit the COO and CTO, Chad Dickerson, who later became the CEO.

Every place you can find an edge, you should - the free agent market, the undrafted market, the D-League, international players, Americans playing overseas, international players playing in America, the second round. You should be looking for all those opportunities, finding whatever edge you can.

You want to win in the NBA you want to build a culture and teams will always do that and try to win. It's cutthroat. All 30 teams want to be that way whether they are rebuilding, have young players, have a style of play. It doesn't matter, everybody wants to win.

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

I was the lead recruiter at Louisville. I think I signed four or five guys before I left.