Mike Leach Quotations

Moses was in high school the last time these guys lost a homecoming game.

On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.

I don't care about the negative attention, ... I did feel that some of our players played like the media view of how we're supposed to play when you're ahead. I don't happen to subscribe to that view, and I'll address it with them (today).

I enjoy coming back to these breakfasts every year, ... They help you focus on community and things you might not always focus on.

I always thought it was incredibly ridiculous, ... The notion of artificially shortening games is crazy.

We're older on defense than we've been the last couple years. We had been playing a lot of freshmen and sophomores. Now we're predominantly juniors.

I think they have a really good running back, and they have a few quarterbacks that both offer a variety of things. The quarterbacks have different skills that account for a wide variety of things. But then the running back is a really good player.

I thought on both sides of the ball we were sloppy to start this game. My guess would be we were trying to make too much happen on any given play, rather than try to make routine plays.

I thought he was steady, ... There's always a level of jitters that goes on with a guy that's starting his first game. He hid it well. I'm sure he had some.

I thought he was pretty good. We contained him for a period of time but he is very explosive and can go off at any given moment. He is a great player and he commands as much attention as any player in the conference.

I think they're going to be really good.

I think they realize I've done a good job for them, and they wanted to reward me and make sure I'm here for a few years. It's not a lottery deal, but I'm happy with it.

We were sloppier on both sides of the ball but we played well for a period of time.

Tim Couch: He's like Couch from the point that you see him watching film in there quite a bit,

You can just tell they've played a lot of football and have a lot of confidence.

We had a few mental lapses and errors that cost us in the fifth and sixth innings, but we were able to get the win. As you can tell, we hit the ball really well.

There's going to be times a guy's having a tough day or tough series or something like that, but you're not going to have the ability to develop through it unless you stick with it, ... There's times where you've got to make a change, but I don't think changing for the sake of changing is necessarily the (proper approach). You've invested a certain amount of time in developing a guy, in giving him reps, so I think generally the thing to do if he's having a bad day is to settle him down, not switch him out.

I've said this one time before ? if anybody could do it, we wouldn't go around the country recruiting these guys to play quarterback. We'd just go to 7-Eleven and pull the guys out of there. There's a lot of guys at 7-Eleven who'd like to play quarterback.

Defensively, I think this is the most impressive group of guys able to respond to play after play. Overall, they did a great job making big plays and working well together.

Definitely, this is a great set of reinforcements and we're excited to get them up here and get them to work.

There was Lance Funderburk, ... He's got big hands like Lance. He does have these mitts. The Hodges have big hands and feet.

It's not just a bowl that your players have heard about for a long, long time, but their parents and their grandparents have. There isn't anyplace in America that's insulated from the Cotton Bowl and its tradition.

It's the toughest position in our offense to play, ... You're called on to rush the ball, to catch the ball and to block and protect. That can be tough to sort out because he has to make reads on his own. He's given us the versatility to do all that.

It's pretty difficult for me to try him any more than he's already been tried. I don't feel particularly good about denying a guy an opportunity on a misdemeanor alone. If he'd had a couple of misdemeanors or a pattern of them, that's different.

They challenged us. They said, 'Here, try to run past us, try to run inside us.' And they were better at preventing that than we were throwing and catching it.

I'm not sure that the first drive of the second half isn't the most significant drive in the game in a lot of cases. That was a drive that where, if you dominate that drive, you get the upper hand. They dominated that drive, and they got the upper hand.

I'm a big fan of pirates in general.

Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.

You're either coaching it or allowing it to happen.

LSU would be a good place to stand during a lightning storm.