Quotes from Lane Kiffin

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.

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.

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 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.

It's all right to have fun.

I just like to have fun with the fans.

I like helping first-year head coaches.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

I know I rubbed people the wrong way.

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.

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

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

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.'

A Tennessee fan mailed me things I signed for him because they said they don't want this trash in their house. So they mailed it back to me.

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?'