Mike Leach Quotes

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If your quarterback wants a deflated football, your soccer-style kicker is going to want it kind of full. If your quarterback wants it really full, your straight-on kicker is going to want less air in it. It’s a regulation football; let them use it however they want to. You use your own ball.

Mike Leach

Outside of North America, best football? Is Samoa North America? Probably Samoa. I’d say Samoa. Germany‘s certainly up there.

Mike Leach

When Washington State has been good, they’ve always had a connection to Southern California. You know, as far as visiting, that’s different than recruiting. Recruiting is based on production and players, who you can get. You know, so, the nicest parts of Southern California aren’t necessarily the best players.

Mike Leach

You’re gaining more than you’re losing in a small town.

Mike Leach

I know that in Ames, Iowa, they fancy themselves being experts on the wind, but in Lubbock, Texas, we’ll put our wind up against your wind in Iowa.

Mike Leach

I’ve actually seen guys who I considered relatively stupid college coaches, then go to the NFL, and sanctimoniously think they understand that something the rest of us couldn’t perceive. They’re an idiot before, they’re an idiot now, and they’ll be an idiot afterwords. It’s mind-numbing.

Mike Leach

I’m a big movie guy.

Mike Leach

I think they need to expand the playoff system. I think the minimum should be 16 teams, but they could easily go with more than that… in other words, I want to see more football. Everybody from rec league softball on down can figure out how to put together a tournament and yet Division I can’t.

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Before I ever got into coaching, I got my law degree at Pepperdine.

Mike Leach

When things were really rolling at Texas Tech, I was a part of something bigger than myself, bigger than football.

Mike Leach

Freedom of speech should be wide open as long as it doesn’t incite violence.

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Anytime you’re trying to set a course, there’s gonna be decisions made, and you have to weigh all options, and then in the end you come up with the best course.

Mike Leach

I read the entire Old Testament and New Testament.

Mike Leach

There’s some teams – the Cubs are one of them – where there’s just too many fans.

Mike Leach

No one wants police brutality. No one wants inequality. But what I worry about it is when a protest becomes so large and the noise takes over that the original motivation for the protest and the conversation that should go with that protest gets lost.

Mike Leach

You get these Satanists types that don’t believe in God. OK, so you realize you don’t get Satan if you don’t get God, right? Or atheists that want to believe in ghosts. Wait, wait, wait. You can’t have a two-way go on that. You want to be agnostic, be an atheist, fine. But you don’t bring ghosts along with you.

Mike Leach

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.

Mike Leach

I just go to work every day, spend hours in the film room, go to practice, go home and then do it all again the next day. I know I can be boring and I sound like a walking cliche but I really do just try to get our team ready to win a game on Saturday. That’s pretty much my life.

Mike Leach

I’m not a beat around the bush kind of guy.

Mike Leach

Outstanding people in Iowa. Very down-to-earth people in Iowa. It was a great place to be.

Mike Leach

If you get into a fight, don’t take your helmet off. We’re looking for smart football players, not dumb ones.

Mike Leach

I think the days before cell phones, when it was dirt clod wars at construction sites, was a lot more wholesome and productive, to be perfectly honest.

Mike Leach

I listen a lot to Howard Stern. Not the show, the interviews. He has a separate podcast of just interviews. They’re fantastic.

Mike Leach

If you aren’t focused on what’s right here in front of you, if you’re daydreaming about what might be, you really aren’t focused at all.

Mike Leach

There’s shouting, there’s blood, there’s boogers, there’s a whole thing. I mean, there’s spitting, there’s fighting, there’s ripped jerseys. There’s someone grabbing someone’s throat. I mean, it’s why you have football.

Mike Leach

I think that when you die, you continue to progress. You continue to grow in kind of an elevated state, but I don’t think you sit there and wallow around and play the harp.

Mike Leach

My dad always watched wrestling and I seldom did.

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Playing someone difficult is tough and can be discouraging, but if you beat them the payoff is huge!

Mike Leach

I’m proud to say I had a bet with a guy from Chicago who said Chicago is windier and colder than Wyoming. Wyoming dominated them.

Mike Leach

The interesting thing about football is that football is the only sport where you quit playing when you get a lead.

Mike Leach

There’s a reason they only serve fruitcake once a year, because it’s awful. There’s a reason they only serve mint julep’s once a year, because they’re awful. And there’s a reason they only serve candy corn once a year, because it’s awful.

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Those that have a voice have to speak for those of us who are silenced.

Mike Leach

Tracked a raccoon one time in the snow. I was in the neighborhood and I was just curious where this raccoon lived. There’s some fresh raccoon tracks. He’d been digging at somebody‘s garbage.

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I did go to the Alamo. Fascinating. A lot of details and nuances to the Alamo that are impressive.

Mike Leach

The government shutdown, we all know that’s a sham. I mean, are they really going to just go to the entire Army and Navy and say, ‘You’re fired.’

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I’d like to think I am a good coach but I’ve called bad plays. I’ve coached bad practices. I’ve made bad substitution choices.

Mike Leach

I don’t think they necessarily do nearly as much haunting as people think. If you believe in the Bible, pretty much part of the deal that goes with it is ghosts.

Mike Leach

You go out and do the best you can and hope it works. You just try to improve.

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I’ve always thought that the – as far as regions of the country that people brag about, as far as top talent, the Inland Empire is awfully hard to beat.

Mike Leach

I don’t feel like it’s fair to the other players and I don’t think it’s the right way to do business to allow influence and position to dictate when you play a young man.

Mike Leach

I keep my guns on one part of the house totally locked up, and I keep the ammunition in another part of the house.

Mike Leach

My life’s pretty simple. Look at hours and hours of film to try to find some things that will work on Saturday. Try to have a good practice every day. Use the offseason to recruit and build the culture of the locker room. That’s my deal.

Mike Leach

My favorite weather pattern happens to be when it rains mud. Dust comes through. Rain on top of it. It rains mud.

Mike Leach

ESPN wants to scrutinize everyone, but if they’re scrutinized, they run and hide.

Mike Leach

I feel like Texas high schools, when you consider the melting pot that exists in Texas, do a fairly impressive job. No education process is perfect, but I think that, with plenty of room to improve, they do an admirable job when you compare them to the rest of the field.

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I’ve directly contributed to losses, but likewise, I’d like to think I contributed to a lot of wins and a lot of good play.

Mike Leach

Iowa is kind of a fascinating place.

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There’s nothing balanced about the 50 percent run, 50 percent pass because that’s 50 percent stupid.

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Well, you’re going to be dead in a hundred years anyway, so live dangerously.

Mike Leach

Oh I’ve never liked candy corn, I think it’s just awful – I think candy corn’s awful.

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Obama is trying to protect Obamacare, and then obviously even in his own party a bunch of people are against it.

Mike Leach

Everybody says marriage is ’til death do you part – and I’ve been married 29 years – but a book is really ’til death do you part. Once you write it, it’s out there.

Mike Leach

Even in Texas, there’s a lot of people who’ve never been to Lubbock.

Mike Leach

Nothing has done more to bring people of different races and different backgrounds together than athletics, certainly more than politicians have done. It’s why the Greeks invented the Olympics.

Mike Leach

I’ve never had a dumb quarterback. I think if you’re dumb, it’s difficult to overcome.

Mike Leach

There’s a very public quality to coaching.

Mike Leach

I’ve always been insecure about dancing. I was when I was in high school.

Mike Leach

I ought to have Mike‘s Pirate School. The freshmen, all they get is the bandanna. When you’re a senior, you get the sword and skull and crossbones. For homework, we’ll work pirate maneuvers and stuff like that.

Mike Leach

I feel like a caffeine addict.

Mike Leach

Whether it’s a car or boat or motorcycle, it’s a dangerous item, so you have to show a level of competence and get a license before you’re allowed to operate something that’s dangerous. Guns are dangerous but you don’t have to get a license to operate guns.

Mike Leach

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