Mike Leach Quotes

There are few secrets in football. So execute.

I want to win football games.

I think if you're consistent in this league, you'll win a lot of ball games.

Continuity is important in sports.

I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.

I'll put it this way: I couldn't just go out the practice without looking at the playbook, without looking at notes. I wouldn't be able to do much.

Nothing guarantees a championship. Nothing. Not having the best players, not practicing the most. Your best chance is if you do the right thing every day.

Every coach wants to win, but it's not easy to do that.

A lot of things have to come together to win a World Cup.

I was a competitor as a football player and I'm a competitor as a coach.

Practice don't win games.

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

I just come to training, work hard, go home, prepare for the game, then play.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

Defense is the thing we can control and bring every night. But I want to be great on both ends.

Baseball is just a game you go out every single day and try to win, go in the cage every day and stick to your routine and try not to be results-based, even though that's what the game is based on.

To be on time, to eat well like a professional, to sleep like a professional. To train and play like a professional. I encourage everyone to do this every day.

I'm playing quarterback, I'm playing football, and I don't try to make it more than that.