Lane Kiffin Quotes

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

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

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

"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?"

"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.'"

"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."

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

"One game is never going to define a player."

"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."

"Al Davis fires everybody."

"I needed Nick Saban more than I needed Pete Carroll."

"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.'"

"I'm very grateful to Coach Saban."

"I like helping first-year head coaches."

"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?'"

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"It's all right to have fun."

"Every season is a season of its own."

"I'm not driven by money anymore."

"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."

"Age is irrelevant. Experience is relevant."

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

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

"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."

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