In golf, you keep trying to score well when you're ahead. In basketball, they don't quit shooting when they're ahead. In hockey, they don't quit shooting the puck when they're ahead. And in boxing, you don't quit punching when you're ahead. But in football, somehow magically, you're supposed to quit playing when you're ahead.

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

When the Egyptians were building the pyramids or the Romans were building roads, or you had the westward push with the railroads, I don't think that the guys on the ground were spending a lot of time thinking, 'Hey, hundreds or thousands of years from now they will look back at the brick I have just laid down here and say that I changed the world!'

Mike Leach

I feel like a caffeine addict.

Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach

I guess I need to get out more.

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

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

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

It's a good idea to shave for TV games.

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.

Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach

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

Mike Leach

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

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

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.

Mike Leach

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

You know, buffalo are significantly bigger than elk. I grew up near Yellowstone so I've been near buffalo. Buffalo are huge.

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

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

Mike Leach