Mike Leach Quotes

It's always been my dream to be an attorney, and I'm that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom.

After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.

When I wanted to be an attorney, I think I wanted to be a litigator; I wanted to be in a courtroom.

When I went back to New Hampshire after graduating from law school, my plan was to go work for a private firm because I had to pay some student loans off and make money and really just be in the private practice of law. Which can be very rewarding.

I actually was a defense attorney first.

You know, I started with the law firm of Taft Stettinius & Hollister in Cincinnati back in 1990.

When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities to be a coach.

I'm nothing to do with the Conservative Party; I'm not a member of the Conservative Party. I stopped being a member shortly after I stopped being a member of Parliament and I took up a career as a broadcaster.

I have a J.D., but I'm not a practicing attorney as far as entertainment law goes.

I am a pretty good lawyer, and I decided to close the office and to enter politics.

I do not know if I will stay in the game when I do retire; I have got humanity, so I do not know if I will go into law.

After getting a law degree, I spent five unhappy months as a corporate attorney.

After 12 years as an Air Force officer, I turned in my wings for a notebook, earned a law degree and went to work for Proctor & Gamble.

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

Now I am practicing as well as a criminal defense lawyer in handling appeals. The court of appeals appointed me to handle cases and although that's not trial work and I don't have to go to court, it kind of satisfies the need I have to practice still and I have transitioned into readiness not to be in trial anymore. It took a little while for me to get used to not doing it and I did miss it for a few years, but eventually I transferred into another life.

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.

I don't want to be a musician forever. I want to keep going to school and become a lawyer for women's rights and also use the law to help women.