Kirby Smart Quotes

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city.

We have to be careful about creating more rules.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

The enforcement is the flip side to the growth. And that's OK.

Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules.

To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football.

I got more whistleblowers from the Secret Service than I do anywhere else. And if you look at that department and agency, it's the one place you can never, ever, ever make a mistake - ever.

I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.

Some of the most cutthroat auditions you'll have as an actor are when you'll have three words to say.

Fines have to be incentives to enforce the law. We cannot allow them to become just another cost of doing business

Regulators will issue regulations until someone says no.

Oversight was not meant to be comfortable.

With Government funding comes regulation.

No rules will be strong enough to prevent every abuse, yet good, strong regulations can stop the worst of it.

I have been trying to understand the regulators.

Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe.

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

The margin for error in the Champions League is tiny.

It's a whole different world once you get into games. You have people actually trying to hit you, the speed of the game's a lot faster, you have a lot of different things you need to check and see. It's a whole different world up there once game time comes.