Memorable Quotes from Kiffin's acceptance Speech.

Here's a few of the quotes from Kiffin's acceptance speech at UT that I found interesting. This comes courtesy of GoVolsXtra.com

As Mike and I talked, one of the conversations we had, I told Mike the last thing I want you to do is offer me the job right now. I don’t know if that’s what you want to do, but I don’t want you to offer it to me. I want you to go out and interview every guy that’s supposed to be the best in the world. What I want you to do is come back and say, ‘I want you to be the head coach at the University of Tennessee. I know you can do a better job than anybody else.’ You should never look back and see you missed something.

As we’re nationally recruiting, we’ll never forget Tennessee. We’ve got to put a fence around the state of Tennessee. We’ve got to make it so that there is no reason a player from Tennessee should ever leave this state and go anywhere else. They need to be here playing for us and winning championships for the University of Tennessee. That will be our number one goal in recruiting, as well as going nationally.

I’m really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T, singing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida next year. It will be a blast.

I want the Tennessee family to know this. This is what I’m going to give you. I’m rolling my sleeves up and going to work. I’m not promising you how many wins, how many championships. I can’t do that. I don’t know that. There are too many variables, but I can tell you this right now: No one is going to outwork us. No one is going to outwork me as a head coach and no one is going to outwork our staff that we put together. That’s the promise I’m giving you, the wins will come after that. You’re going to see it; you’re going to feel it throughout the state. It starts today. It starts when this thing is done. I’m on a plane and I’m going to Memphis to see the No. 1 recruit. It starts today you’re going to feel it.