108 Quotes by Lane Kiffin

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.