Lane Kiffin Quotes

After I watched Tom Brady win the Super Bowl, it made me start to think that the only thing that marks greatness is consistency over a long period of time.

I'm fortunate in one way and I can take pride from the fact that I've consistently performed for 10 years, which is something that not many people can do. I've consistently stayed near the top for 10 years which is maybe something that is overlooked and taken for granted.

In order to be great in this game, you have to be good for a really long time, and to be good, you have to constantly win.

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

To be somebody you must last.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

Greatness comes with patience.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.

Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.

A season is not made in a week or two any more than a stellar game epitomizes greatness.

For both the wine business and in football, if you want longevity, you must work hard.

It's difficult to compete if you are not consistent.

If you want to be a top player you have to play well for the whole season and then ten more seasons, not just three or four games.

It's the only way you're able to play as long as I have, is to go out there and perform.

The key factor in my strategy is longevity.

How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life's race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises.

How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don't realise I have played 250 games. It's not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can't survive like that in international cricket.

I persist in performing.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.