Lane Kiffin Quotes

I'd like to teach my players how to play and not just run plays.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

In Rome, I was already trying to help in shaping the game, but the style was a little bit different to what we do at Liverpool.

I love working with Coach O'Brien, Coach Godsey, and they are terrific football coaches.

Pep is a super coach! He is excellent. He is the best at analysing an opponent and the concept of a game. I don't know what impact he had on German football, but he left a mark on all of us at Bayern because of how he analysed and educated the players in each position and the way he taught us to play.

I always felt before Paul Brown, coaches just rolled the ball out onto the field.

Sarri taught me football. He is a coach I really like, well-prepared and even scientific in the way he analyses games.

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.

I wanted the opportunity to play for Tom Osborne. Here we are in the locker room at half-time, gathering around Coach Osborne. It grows quiet, and I'll never forget what he said. He said, 'Let's get this over with.'

When Coach Belichick comes up to you during a game and says something to you, that's great.

Manager Kit Symons sees our players daily. As a top-flight player not that long ago, Kit knows and feels the game.

Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

From my youth team all the way through, I was encouraged to play that way by Keith Hill when I was at Barnsley, and then Roberto Martinez at Everton, through to Gareth Southgate when he was in charge of the England Under-21s.

Hiddink really taught me a lot. We talked every day at Anzhi and I saw how he dealt with difficult situations, how he always seemed to know what the players needed. He was a great teacher. I hope I can be as successful as him.

All that I can say is that, from my point of view, our manager Arsene Wenger is an unbelievable man off the pitch and as a manager.

When we talk my biggest influence, I have to say Van Gaal. He threw me in the deep end.

When I got to college, my coach let me handle everything, from calling the plays to changing protections to checking in the run game. He let me do absolutely everything at the line.

Arsene Wenger is a good coach. He has authority, and straight away, I can see he helps players with small things to make them better.

I have been impressed by Carlo Ancelotti, Kevin Keegan, Arsene Wenger, Guus Hiddink, Christoph Daum and Sam Allardyce.

Frank de Boer definitely showed in the Netherlands that he's a good coach.