A biography for Lane Kiffinhasn’t been written yet.
“This profession, I don't know why, you're supposed to be so serious and just be so proper.”
“I was a graduate assistant at Colorado State, and I think we got $550 a month.”
“I've always valued more where I work for and the fans and the current players than what the national perception is of me.”
“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 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.”
“I like to make people laugh.”
“You can't just go visit somewhere and come away and know how they run their business.”
“You can't troll somebody who doesn't see it.”
“Every season is a season of its own.”
“There's not a day goes by that I don't ask, What would Coach Saban do?”
“I don't really think before I tweet.”
“When you're little you either want to be like your dad or be directly opposite.”
“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'm not really big on humiliating assistant coaches in front of everybody.”
“You have to be yourself. You can't pretend to be somebody else.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When God gives you a second chance, it's not something you take for granted.”
“Once you start rooting against somebody, you're always going to look for the negative in everything they do.”