Jim Harbaugh

Coach

1963-12-23

Quotes by Jim Harbaugh

• I was seven years old when my dad first showed me how to cut the grass. It was a big job for a kid my age. We had a pretty decent-sized backyard. It was on a hill - tough to mow. But I cut it so good. I double-cut it. I cut it at an angle, then cut across it at another angle, like a checkerboard. The way I'd seen in the outfield at baseball games.

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• We play a game called, 'Peru ball,' it's a game we invented in Peru. The rules are so simple. You play with a football and one team's going one direction, the other team's going the other direction. Get the ball across the line, the length of a soccer goal. That's it, that's the only rules.

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• Speeches? I don't ever feel like I'm giving a speech. I don't look at myself as a motivational speaker.

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• I take a vitamin every day - it's called a steak.

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• Sure, the Super Bowl is the greatest prize in our sport. But winning a national championship. That's pretty darn great.

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• As a kid, to have adults think you're valuable enough to perform certain tasks gives you a real sense of confidence. Cutting the lawn. Raking leaves. Shoveling snow. Walking the dog for our neighbor Mrs. Trumm - who was a German professor at Michigan - for 25 cents.

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• I like the guys that like football. And the guys that like football, they all like me back. And the ones that don't like me? They're the ones that know that I know that they don't like football. They tend to avoid me.

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• I think every American boy should play soccer till the eighth grade. Then they should play football. American football.

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• Most people think of January 1st as the start of a new year. To people who espouse to Catholicism and Christianity, they might correlate that with the birth of Christ. Us in football, the start of spring practice and the first day of summer training camp are what you look at as the New Year with fireworks going off, it's your birthday.

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• I'm never going to take the position to trash something that I was a part of, and the memories that I have, the wins, the championships, the titles.

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• I'd got hit by a mail truck. Broke my leg in two places. Had a cast on for about six months. I was in the first grade. Second half of first grade.

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• The thing I like about Donald Trump is he's not afraid to fight the establishment.

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• I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jackhammer.

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• It's like the human body. What a tremendous organism. It actually craves contact. It likes contact. It craves it, as opposed to a car. If you backed into a brick wall, that would cause at least $2,000 worth of damage. It doesn't have the ability to repair itself or callus over, but the human body does.

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• People talk about cold weather and it'd be tough to catch balls. But the greatest catcher of all time, Michael Crabtree, catches everything. It's unbelievable. In the northern snowlands, down to the tropics' sunny scenes, he's catching the football. Where they throw a football, he'll be catching it.

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• A coach should go to practice with a whistle and I just clip a pen on it. It's really not complicated at all.

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• I love Woody Hayes! If you really know me, you know Woody Hayes is in my top three of all-time coaches. I've read all of his books. I've gone a very long way to try to emulate Woody Hayes. I think he's one of the greatest of all-time.

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• If worms had machine guns, then birds wouldn't be scared of them.

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• I'm a Tupac man myself. And my all-time favorite song, Gordon Lightfoot's 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.'

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• Honestly I knew from the very youngest age that I was going to play football, then coach, then die. I never thought about a deviation from that plan.

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