As entertaining as Les Miles' teams have been, the Mad Hatter has been equally fun with a microphone in front of him. Whether he was opining on a family vacation, the importance of Election Day or which stadium has the best-tasting grass, Miles was always required listening. Miles' time in Baton Rouge as LSU's football coach may be up, but these quotes will live on.

Here are our favorites from Miles' LSU tenure:

What Miles did on his summer vacation

"The Miles family, [daughter and Texas student] Smacker Miles, I took a vacation. I went to Austin, took my three children with me, so we had six, two parents and four children on that campus. It was miserable. I hated it. But it was great fun. I mean, it was not a beach, it was not sand, but it was my family, and that was the best."

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Have a great day

"I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I've got a championship game to play, and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. It's really all I'd like to say. It was unfortunate that I had to address my team with this information this morning. But that being done, I think we'll be ready to play. There'll be no questions for me. I represent me in this issue. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day." -- Miles, during an impromptu news conference called before the 2007 SEC championship game, responding to reports that he was a candidate for a job at his alma mater, Michigan

Give them a big kiss on the mouth

"I'm proud of those men. How fricking easy it would have been to say it was their night. How [expletive] easy. Excuse my language. Spectacular group of men. You go find them, you throw your arms around them, you give them a big kiss them on the mouth ... if you're a girl." -- Miles after beating Ole Miss in 2012

Les talks holidays

Columbus Day

"I just want to remind everybody that it's Columbus Day, that all those of you that know Italians and like Italians are the people that might venture onto a ship and travel to explore and find new lands: This is your day. So it's not St. Patty's Day. That's a different day entirely."

Election Day

"Just recognize that it's Election Day coming up, where all those model citizens will get off and take care of their duties to the country. This is not Columbus Day, it's not just for the Italians. It's certainly not St. Patty's Day, it's not just for the Irish. It's for all of those who have the ability to vote in our country. So get out and do that, please."

The grass in Tiger Stadium tastes best

"I have a little tradition that humbles me as a man, that lets me know that I'm a part of the field and part of the game, and it's the very bottom as well as the very top. Yeah, that's going to be all over the internet. You know what, you should have seen some games before this. I can tell you one thing: The grass in Tiger Stadium tastes best." -- Miles on eating grass against Alabama during a game in 2010

A very stiff dew

"It would be far from me to say that it ever rained Saturday night in Tiger Stadium. But it was very close to rain, if not a very stiff dew." -- Miles on playing Auburn during a rainy night in 2013.

If I read books ...

"When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books. But if I read books, it would be like reading a book."

The hammer and the nail

"Two very quality teams take the field and compete like a son of a b---- for victory, and you know what, it's not a hammer-and-a-nail relationship. It's an opportunity for an opponent to be equal and to raise their level of play in such a fashion that they win. And that's how this thing works. That in fact you respect the opponent and he's not the hammer and he's not the fricking nail, he's the opponent. You understand? I'm just letting you know I resent that. I resent the fact that suddenly we were nailed. You got it? I mean honest to Petes. I mean, s---, we were a pretty good team last year. I thought we played like a son of a b---- in that stadium. I'm just letting you know, I felt differently than the nail, so you know." -- Miles discussing a reporter's inference that LSU had been the hammer and Florida the nail in a 17-6 win in 2013 compared to the opposite being true when they met the previous season

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The upper quadrant of speed

"I brought the team to the field, and I just want you to know that it appeared to me that the field was strong with excess band members and people with flags and maybe even an occasional mascot or two. And as I made my way through what appeared, again, to be a minefield of people, from the side unbeknownst to me, there was a contact between one of our players and a cheerleader -- male, I might add. That male cheerleader kind of clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good. But I was masked by the flag. There was a flag waver there that certainly hid my embarrassing tumble. ... I was not nicked. I came up gingerly, but kind of walked it off and avoided a baton twirler as I got to the bench." -- Miles on falling down while leading the team out of the tunnel before the Alabama game in 2011

Beach vs. beach location

"He went to a beach location. It wasn't a beach. He had no problem in the beach at all. The beach was not sandy where he was at. It was not ... for instance, there was no, like, crabs there." -- Miles just before spring break in 2016 when asked whether he barred players from visiting places like Panama City Beach, where Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott had been assaulted in a parking-lot fight a year earlier

The chest to lead a program

"We needed a quarterback. We lost two. We needed a quarterback in this class. There was a gentleman from Indiana that thought about coming to the Bayou State. He did not necessarily have the chest and the ability to lead a program, so you know." -- Miles criticizing Gunner Kiel for decommitting from LSU and switching to Notre Dame