Lane Kiffin Quotes

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

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.

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.

People ask me what Nick (Saban) says to me on the sidelines. It is just, ‘I love you so much. Can we just run some.’

I’m not really big on humiliating assistant coaches in front of everybody.

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

I like to make people laugh.

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

I have a ‘Golden Tee’ machine in my house.

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?

Al Davis fires everybody.

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

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 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.

I don’t really think before I tweet.

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

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

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.

One game is never going to define a player.

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

I’m really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T, singing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida next year. It will be a blast

I’m very grateful to Coach Saban.

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

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.

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.

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

You want a job where the pressure is on and expectations are high.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

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.

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.

We aspire to be like Jim Harbaugh. No, seriously, he does a great job.

If something comes on the radio or in print, I don’t think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.

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

To be able to go through what I’ve gone through and still be fortunate before the age of 40 to still be here to be offensive coordinator with Coach Saban at Alabama, you take some time to reflect on that.

In the end what matters is, do you develop your team, do you win games and do you graduate your players.

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

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.

I’m not driven by money anymore.

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

I really enjoy challenges.

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

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.

When you’re little you either want to be like your dad or be directly opposite.

That’s what I expect from the players – perfection.

It’s all right to have fun.

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

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

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

I have begun to realize just how amazing God’s plan can be.

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

Every season is a season of its own.

I should have been paying Coach Saban instead of them paying me because of the amount of knowledge that you learn in three years, and you view ‘The Process.’

Age is irrelevant. Experience is relevant.

Everything we own really belongs to God, we are just renting it, and when we die those things are going to become somebody else’s possessions.

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

I just like to have fun with the fans.

Other kids were watching John Elway. I was watching Tom Landry.

I’ve always valued more where I work for and the fans and the current players than what the national perception is of me.

I know I rubbed people the wrong way.