Lane Kiffin Quotes

What I'm going to do is I will eliminate everyone in the comms team, and we'll start over.

It disturbs me to see a football coach fired.

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.

So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.

We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.

You have a losing team, you change the coach.

I would proceed to discharge every man ... who continued to foment, and cause a disturbance .... It would be a sad thing for some of the old white-haired engineers ... to be thrown out of work, but I told the Committee I should strike with an unsparing hand.

Gentlemen, by royal order you have all been relieved of your functions.

You’ve got two people working for you – Warrick and (Meghan) O’Sullivan – that you need to get rid of.

If you fire him, you get two for the price of one.

Everybody who's been fired has heard before about the problems they have. They just don't know it's that serious. Once you know what the stakes are, you become more serious.

We were cowards when we sacked him.

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

Once I will warn you, and then I will fire you! I have a zero-tolerance-plus-one policy for gossip. I will teach you once, and then I will fire your butt.

Sometimes when general managers get a new job, they clean house and start over and rebuild and get the players they want in there.

Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.

There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.

Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.

Let me just be very clear: I'm just hopeful the coach doesn't dismiss me.

You always have years when you go through transition and the side needs to be rebuilt. Or you have changes in terms of managers.

I'd never have left Hawkwind if I hadn't been fired.

The NFL is one of the few sports where it's possible to tear things down and start again.

When you see that the head of human resources is sitting in the meeting you've been called into, it's not a good sign.

I believe that everything starts from scratch when changing a coach.