Top 86 Quotes & Sayings by Lane Kiffin

I think I was 24 when I went to USC with Pete Carroll. Pete believed in people and never worried about their age. I learned that from him.

You can't just go visit somewhere and come away and know how they run their business.

I don't really think before I tweet.

Every season is a season of its own.

When I was younger I used to read everything. 'Why is this guy saying this, why is this article saying this.' That's one of the things Coach Saban has taught me, he does not listen or read anything that's out there at all. He says 'why am I going to waste my time?'

I always try to find better ways to do things. Whether it's a game plan, a practice, a meeting, an interview, whatever it is. I'm going to find a way to find a way to analyze it and find a better way to do it. That's my mindset. I've never been satisfied with anything. That's just my mindset. I'm always trying to find a better way to do things.

I'm not driven by money anymore.

You have to be yourself. You can't pretend to be somebody else.

A Tennessee fan mailed me things I signed for him because they said they don't want this trash in their house. So they mailed it back to me.

Obviously I love coaching. It's what I've done my whole life.

I have a 'Golden Tee' machine in my house.

Al Davis fires everybody.

I know I get a lot of grief about some of the things I've said about Coach Saban, but working under him was like going back to school and getting another degree.

I don't think you've done something by getting a job. I think you've done something by proving you can succeed at that job.

You can't troll somebody who doesn't see it.

Any time that you get big titles or head jobs at a young age, there's going to be that factor. 'He didn't pay his dues.'

Toughness isn't that you've got to fight with the guy after the play or punch him because he punched you. That's not tough. That's dumb.

Any experience you have, there are good parts of it and bad parts, and you have to learn from the bad parts and the mistakes that you've made.

I'd like to think I'm always going to defend our players.

If I'm cussing at you, swearing at you, calling you demeaning names, are you really thinking about that last play? Am I really helping you get better? Or am I just making myself feel good by demeaning you? I've really never understood it.

Winning changes the perception of what you do, and whether it's a positive or a negative, even though it's the exact same thing.

If there's a group of articles written about me, I can usually tell the difference if someone's writing an article and they know me from someone who doesn't know me. They're usually very different.

I'm very grateful to Coach Saban.

You don't win championships by having the cheapest budget.

I don't care about what people think about me that don't know me. But the one thing that bothers me of all the places is the general perception was that I was a failure at USC as a head coach.

To do the impossible, you must be able to see the invisible.

Age is irrelevant. Experience is relevant.

At Tennessee, I said I can't wait to beat Florida in the Swamp and sing 'Rocky Top' all night long. The thing at Tennessee I felt was that there needed to be energy in the program immediately. Two of the last three years there, they were 5-7. Urban Meyer and Nick Saban were at all-time highs. I felt like the fan base and players needed confidence.

I needed Nick Saban more than I needed Pete Carroll.

I really enjoy challenges.

I like helping first-year head coaches.

Should we go back to huddling? Should we go back to putting all these tight ends in there and have 250 yards a game? It doesn't win anymore. So should we do it because that's what the people before us did? No.

There are different things I've done that I wouldn't do again that kept following me. That's the price that you pay when you make mistakes early on.

It's all right to have fun.

You can be really hot one minute, the next minute be unemployed.

As far as the bowl games, I don't think the players really play for that. Not at USC.

I was a graduate assistant at Colorado State, and I think we got $550 a month.

My phone was not ringing very much at the time after USC, and that was a very humbling experience after being let go there and to go through that process. You start calling a lot of people that don't call you back all of a sudden, and you realize things about people.

This profession, I don't know why, you're supposed to be so serious and just be so proper.

Once you start rooting against somebody, you're always going to look for the negative in everything they do.

Anybody can get a job, but what do you do when you have it?

I think of things as competition when people say you can't do something.

Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching 'Monday Night Football' with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.

When God gives you a second chance, it's not something you take for granted.

People always say, 'Do you get bothered by what people say or blog or write about you?' I only do if I know them. If I know them, and I have a relationship with them and they write that, then that would surprise me a lot. Usually the people writing the negative stuff don't know me at all.

If you would have told me when I was 24 years old, right before I went with Coach Carroll to USC, you're going to get to be the offensive coordinator for Pete Carroll and then offensive coordinator for Nick Saban, arguably maybe the two best coaches in all of football by the time you're 40 years old, I would have said, 'Where do I sign up?'

One game is never going to define a player.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

In college I was so mad I wasn't playing. The two guys in front of me were Billy Volek and David Carr, but I just realized that was a blessing in disguise, that I was so bad and I never played, so my brain's good.

It's almost like when you don't have money, you think it's important. And once you have it, you're like, 'Was I really happy because I have more money going into the bank? No.'

You know what I didn't realize at the time is a really good blessing, is that I was a really crappy player.

When you're a sports figure and people dislike you, they're going to look for the negatives.

I'm not naive.

Anybody can do something one time. You have a great year because everything goes right. But can you maintain it and sustain it for a long period of time as Coach Carroll did and Coach Saban?

I just like to do things that aren't supposed to be done.

I don't know if God is a sports fan or not, but I do know this: He loves a good comeback.

I'm always willing to look at my actions, and do them better.

I guess I should say I like to do things that people say you can't do.

Coach Saban and I have a great relationship, regardless of what people may think.

I just like to have fun with the fans.