Lane Kiffin Quotes

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Lane Kiffin

Profession : Coach

Birth : May 9, 1975

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.

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You can't troll somebody who doesn't see it.

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I just like to have fun with the fans.

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This profession, I don't know why, you're supposed to be so serious and just be so proper.

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In college I was so mad I wasn't playing. The two guys in front of me were Billy Volek and David Carr, but I just realized that was a blessing in disguise, that I was so bad and I never played, so my brain's good.

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You know what I didn't realize at the time is a really good blessing, is that I was a really crappy player.

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I just like to do things that aren't supposed to be done.

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I guess I should say I like to do things that people say you can't do.

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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.

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Anybody can get a job, but what do you do when you have it?

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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.

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

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I'd like to think I'm always going to defend our players.

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I really enjoy challenges.

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I think of things as competition when people say you can't do something.

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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.

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People always say, 'Do you get bothered by what people say or blog or write about you?' I only do if I know them. If I know them, and I have a relationship with them and they write that, then that would surprise me a lot. Usually the people writing the negative stuff don't know me at all.

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

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

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When you're little you either want to be like your dad or be directly opposite.

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