Top 50 Lane Kiffin Quotes

I’m very grateful to Coach Saban.

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 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.

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

One game is never going to define a player.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Three years under Saban changed me. He’s the best coach in the world at what he does.

Every season is a season of its own.

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

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

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

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

I don’t really think before I tweet.

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

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

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.

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

I like helping first-year head coaches.

I really enjoy challenges.

I just like to have fun with the fans.

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

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 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 think there’s a person out there who can say they haven’t done something they regret.

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

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

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

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 needed Nick Saban more than I needed Pete Carroll.

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.

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

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.’

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

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

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.

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.’

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.

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.

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

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

I think as you make mistakes, the No. 1 thing you’ve got to do is learn from them and not just make excuses for them. I’ve made more than anybody, probably.

I like to make people laugh.

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.

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