Mike Leach
Mike Leach

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.

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

As a head coach, you're on two lists. You're the guy that might get fired, or you're the guy who might go somewhere.

Mike Leach
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.'

Mike Leach
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
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

Growing up my favorite coach was Billy Martin.

Mike Leach
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
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.

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

My wife is a great dancer. But I don't dance.

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

I'm not really good with technology.

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

I'm a big movie guy.

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach
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
Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach
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.

Mike Leach
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
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
Mike Leach

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.