Lane Kiffin Quotes

I would love to go into coaching someday.

If I continue to work as a coach, it is because my passion and love for football, for the players, is still there.

Being a manager is more than a job. It's my passion. From the moment I wake up in the morning it's my passion.

My passion is promoting and training.

Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.

Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.

Teaching is in my blood.

I love to teach; that's paramount.

To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn't have it for history. So I wouldn't have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that's what coaching is at every level: it's about teaching.

Coaching is what I love to do, and I think I'm pretty good at it.

At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.

I didn't get into coaching to make money. I got into this for the coaching and teaching part.

I've been a coach for 30 years and I've been around football my entire life.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

Sports is my passion.

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.

I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

Acting is my life. It's what I live and breathe.

I love football now. I have a club in Sarajevo, and I love that. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible, honest people, and they really motivate me.