Mike Leach
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
Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

I figured I'd coach two or three years at the most and go back and be an attorney.

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach
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
Mike Leach

When I was at Tech, no public school was ahead of us in graduation rates. We got our guys to compete in the classroom, and if they're competing in class and in football, that's an attitude they take into life.

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

Washington State is great. I'm completely happy at Washington State.

Mike Leach
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
Mike Leach

Atlanta might have snow and Macon might have good weather, and they're not really far apart. But there's a period of time in the year where the gnats get all over your face and they bite you. And the Macon crowd, it's funny, but they can sit there like nothing's happening and there can be gnats just biting the hell out of your face.

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach
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
Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach
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
Mike Leach

Oh I've never liked candy corn, I think it's just awful - I think candy corn's awful.

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

My dad always watched wrestling and I seldom did.

Mike Leach
Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach
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
Mike Leach

I'm a thin-crust pizza guy. I respect people who like thick crust, but in my view it's mostly bread.