Quotes from Lane Kiffin

I don't really think before I tweet.

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

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

I'm not naive.

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

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

I needed Nick Saban more than I needed Pete Carroll.

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

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.

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.

If you would have told me when I was 24 years old, right before I went with Coach Carroll to USC, you're going to get to be the offensive coordinator for Pete Carroll and then offensive coordinator for Nick Saban, arguably maybe the two best coaches in all of football by the time you're 40 years old, I would have said, 'Where do I sign up?'

People's perception changes so fast. You win, and people say, 'Well, he had all of those sanctions at USC, and that's why he lost.' You lose, and, 'OK, he's a bad head coach, and he's just a good play-caller wherever he has been.'

As far as the bowl games, I don't think the players really play for that. Not at USC.

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

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.

I'm not driven by money anymore.

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.