Quotes from Mike Leach

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

My dad always watched wrestling and I seldom did.

I bordered on great in dodge ball.

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.

I think that when you die, you continue to progress. You continue to grow in kind of an elevated state, but I don't think you sit there and wallow around and play the harp.

I feel like a caffeine addict.

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.

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

When Washington State has been good, they've always had a connection to Southern California. You know, as far as visiting, that's different than recruiting. Recruiting is based on production and players, who you can get. You know, so, the nicest parts of Southern California aren't necessarily the best players.

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

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

There's a very public quality to coaching.

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

I ought to have Mike's Pirate School. The freshmen, all they get is the bandanna. When you're a senior, you get the sword and skull and crossbones. For homework, we'll work pirate maneuvers and stuff like that.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!'

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

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.

I'm proud to say I had a bet with a guy from Chicago who said Chicago is windier and colder than Wyoming. Wyoming dominated them.

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