Top 55 Mike Leach Quotes

I do have a Viking axe by the bed if I need to whack someone… My wife bought me a Viking axe – the axe side curls down so you can grab the adversary around the neck and you can use it to climb walls, as a grappling hook.

I would like to be coaching in the right situation if it’s a team effort and doesn’t have a bunch of mini-agendas. I want something where the school wants to win and values graduation and everybody wants to work together.

I guess I need to get out more.

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.

You know, I’ll tell who’s really embraced football is Austria. Austria’s really embraced football.

I think the most important thing is confidence. A lot of people think they’re confident, but if you think about it, most people aren’t.

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.

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

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.

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.’

If Texas and Kansas were countries they wouldn’t be admitted to the World Trade Organization. Their policies are congruent with North Korea, Somalia, Turkestan, several other countries I can’t pronounce and Micronesia.

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.

At an unusually young age, I read ‘Instant Replay’ by Jerry Kramer, which talked a lot about the Green Bay Packers and Vince Lombardi. From there I was really more a fan of coaches than teams and players.

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.

I don’t know how good mountain lions do in captivity. I’m curious.

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.

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

How can it be that we laugh about England’s obsession with the royal family? At least the royal family has college degrees and military service.

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.

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.

My fondest part of college was the interaction and everything I did with my fellow students.

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.

I feel like a caffeine addict.

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

I don’t know everybody’s view on due process, but I do have an opinion on what the Constitution says, what the Pledge of Allegiance implies, what sixth- and seventh-graders are taught in civics classes, and I think it is that you’re going to have the opportunity to be heard.

If you go to any elementary school classroom in Texas, some kids in there are going to be named either Austin, Dallas or Houston.

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

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

Iowa is kind of a fascinating place.

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

It’s indisputable that you’ll make way more money with a larger playoff.

Fish aren’t smart. It’s not like they have advanced degrees.

When you have five skill positions, if all five of them are contributing to the offensive effort, then that’s balanced.

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

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.

There’s a very public quality to coaching.

You know, the loudest stadium I’ve ever played in was 45,000 people at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas. The entire thing is concrete. It’s like dropping a ball bearing in your neighbor’s basement.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

My dad always watched wrestling and I seldom did.

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

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.

I suspect Bill Snyder may be a sorcerer… he’s one of the coaches that I admire most!

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

I read the entire Old Testament and New Testament.

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

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

The people in southern Georgia are tough.

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

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

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