A biography for Mike Leachhasn’t been written yet.
“I've never had a dumb quarterback. I think if you're dumb, it's difficult to overcome.”
“My wife is a great dancer. But I don't dance.”
“I'm not a beat around the bush kind of guy.”
“Iowa is kind of a fascinating place.”
“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.”
“My life's pretty simple. Look at hours and hours of film to try to find some things that will work on Saturday. Try to have a good practice every day. Use the offseason to recruit and build the culture of the locker room. That's my deal.”
“My dad always watched wrestling and I seldom did.”
“I'm a thin-crust pizza guy. I respect people who like thick crust, but in my view it's mostly bread.”
“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.”
“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 don't think people should be allowed to shoot guns unless they have a license.”
“I'm not really good with technology.”
“Obama is trying to protect Obamacare, and then obviously even in his own party a bunch of people are against it.”
“I have a limited knowledge of the Internet, which is pretty clear, I don't even turn anything on other than my phone, when it gets stuck, my kids turn it on.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you go to any elementary school classroom in Texas, some kids in there are going to be named either Austin, Dallas or Houston.”
“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.”
“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.”