Our collection of Mike Leach quotes! Mike Leach is one of the most successful coaches in college football, having won numerous awards and championships over the years. He is known for his witty and sometimes controversial quotes, which make him a favorite among fans and media alike. Here we have gathered some of his most memorable and inspiring quotes to help motivate and inspire you. Enjoy!
Best Mike Leach quotes and sayings to motivate you
#️⃣ “If you get into a fight, don’t take your helmet off. We’re looking for smart football players, not dumb ones.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “Well, you’re going to be dead in a hundred years anyway, so live dangerously.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “If you’re not loaded down with reasons why something won’t work, the reasons why it can work become much clearer.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “You can just tell they’ve played a lot of football and have a lot of confidence.” ― Mike Leach
“I think they realize I’ve done a good job for them, and they wanted to reward me and make sure I’m here for a few years. It’s not a lottery deal, but I’m happy with it.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “There’s going to be times a guy’s having a tough day or tough series or something like that, but you’re not going to have the ability to develop through it unless you stick with it, … There’s times where you’ve got to make a change, but I don’t think changing for the sake of changing is necessarily the (proper approach). You’ve invested a certain amount of time in developing a guy, in giving him reps, so I think generally the thing to do if he’s having a bad day is to settle him down, not switch him out.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “Enjoy what you do, though, is an oversimplification. If you’re ever really good at anything, you don’t enjoy it all of the time because there’s a chase and a challenge to it that goes beyond enjoyment.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “The most important quality in a recruiter is persistence. You want a guy who is willing to make hundreds of phone calls, who is a good conversationalist and has the ability to establish relationships with people.” ― Mike Leach
Funny Mike Leach quotes
#️⃣ “Never confuse activity with results. However, when we do have staff meetings, we go as long as it takes to accomplish the task.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “You’re either coaching it or allowing it to happen.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “There’s some teams – the Cubs are one of them – where there’s just too many fans.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “There’s nothing balanced about the 50 percent run, 50 percent pass because that’s 50 percent stupid.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “You know, I’ll tell who’s really embraced football is Austria. Austria’s really embraced football.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “Therapeutic milieu, which is more than worrying about the patient, the medicines, and the surgeries; it’s about creating the environment around the patient to be able to maximize their health.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “I’ve said this one time before? if anybody could do it, we wouldn’t go around the country recruiting these guys to play quarterback. We’d just go to 7-Eleven and pull the guys out of there. There’s a lot of guys at 7-Eleven who’d like to play quarterback.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “It’s not just a bowl that your players have heard about for a long, long time, but their parents and their grandparents have. There isn’t any place in America that’s insulated from the Cotton Bowl and its tradition.” ― 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 don’t care about the negative attention, … I did feel that some of our players played like the media view of how we’re supposed to play when you’re ahead. I don’t happen to subscribe to that view, and I’ll address it with them (today).” ― Mike Leach
Mike Leach quotes sharing his thoughts
#️⃣ “I think they’re going to be really good.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “I feel like a caffeine addict.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “I’ve always been insecure about dancing. I was when I was in high school.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “I’m a thin-crust pizza guy. I respect people who like thick crust, but in my view, it’s mostly bread.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “I’m a big fan of pirates in general.” ― Mike Leach
“I always thought it was incredibly ridiculous, … The notion of artificially shortening games is crazy.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “I thought on both sides of the ball we were sloppy to start this game. My guess would be we were trying to make too much happen on any given play, rather than try to make routine plays.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “I enjoy coming back to these breakfasts every year, … They help you focus on community and things you might not always focus on.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “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.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “I want to go to a place that’s undervalued, where the potential is great, a place that wants to win, not just participate, in football.” ― Mike Leach
More Mike Leach quotes
#️⃣ “Moses was in high school the last time these guys lost a homecoming game.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “Freedom of speech should be wide open as long as it doesn’t incite violence.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “Definitely, this is a great set of reinforcements and we’re excited to get them up here and get them to work.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “It’s indisputable that you’ll make way more money with a larger playoff.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “LSU would be a good place to stand during a lightning storm.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “When you have five skill positions, if all five of them are contributing to the offensive effort, then that’s balanced.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “They challenged us. They said, ‘Here, try to run past us, try to run inside us.’ And they were better at preventing that than we were throwing and catching it.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “We’re older on defense than we’ve been the last couple years. We had been playing a lot of freshmen and sophomores. Now we’re predominantly juniors.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “We had a few mental lapses and errors that cost us in the fifth and sixth innings, but we were able to get the win. As you can tell, we hit the ball really well.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “I think the legal profession is getting somewhat corrupted. When it comes to lawyers, I think it’s kind of a Catch-22. On one hand, there’s so much process, procedure, and mess caused by the legal profession. But on the other hand, the only way to sort through all that process, procedure, and mess is through the legal profession.” ― 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
#️⃣ “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
Mike Leach quotes about players and the game
#️⃣ “I thought he was steady, … There’s always a level of jitters that goes on with a guy that’s starting his first game. He hid it well. I’m sure he had some.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “On that play, we had a return on, … I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.” ― 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
#️⃣ “Defensively, I think this is the most impressive group of guys able to respond to play after play. Overall, they did a great job making big plays and working well together.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “There was Lance Funderburk, … He’s got big hands like Lance. He does have these mitts. The Hodges have big hands and feet.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “I thought he was pretty good. We contained him for a period of time but he is very explosive and can go off at any given moment. He is a great player and he commands as much attention as any player in the conference.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “I think they have a really good running back, and they have a few quarterbacks that both offer a variety of things. The quarterbacks have different skills that account for a wide variety of things. But then the running back is a really good player.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “I’m not sure that the first drive of the second half isn’t the most significant drive in the game in a lot of cases. That was a drive that where, if you dominate that drive, you get the upper hand. They dominated that drive, and they got the upper hand.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “It’s pretty difficult for me to try him any more than he’s already been tried. I don’t feel particularly good about denying a guy an opportunity on a misdemeanor alone. If he’d had a couple of misdemeanors or a pattern of them, that’s different.” ― Mike Leach
#️⃣ “It’s the toughest position in our offense to play, … You’re called on to rush the ball, to catch the ball, and to block and protect. That can be tough to sort out because he has to make reads on his own. He’s given us the versatility to do all that.” ― Mike Leach
Conclusion
Mike Leach’s quotes are often humorous, inspiring and sometimes even controversial. His words have become a source of wisdom and motivation for many, and his influence is undeniable. His quotes offer a unique perspective on life and will continue to inspire people for years to come.