Top 55 Jim Harbaugh Quotes

Urban Meyer’s had a winning record. Really phenomenal record everywhere he’s been. But also, controversy follows everywhere he’s been.

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.

Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It’s a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building a callus.

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

I wake up before the end of it. Honest. Cross my heart. That’s how my football dreams always go.

I play in dreams. I don’t ever have coaching dreams. But I have football dreams, still.

Being with my family is my favorite thing about being back in Michigan.

I know some people like to get up and pontificate about everything they did in the past and have a lot of long stories about that. But I’m not one of those kind of guys.

Telling the truth matters. Especially at a college.

We talk about sanctity of life, yet we live in a society that aborts babies. There can’t be anything more horrendous.

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

Have an attitude of gratitude.

My soul is happy wherever my body takes me, but when it takes me to Indy, I’m really happy. These are signature years out of my life, some of the best years of my memory.

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.

I have a couple of rules. Number one, get competitive. Number two, win a game. Number three, win two games in a row. Number four, win a championship.

My wife and I had dinner in San Francisco four or five times.

There is so much injustice in the world. Poverty and war.

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.

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

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.

I support people speaking their own mind and saying what they believe.

For me, there’s a lot of great jobs, great opportunities I know in coaching but, for me, the Michigan job was the best job for me.

Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in.

Growing up in Ann Arbor, all my dad’s friends were coaches.

I didn’t leave the 49ers, I felt like the 49er hierarchy left me.

I respect so many people in football. There is so many coaches and people that I trust and respect, and get their advice and take very serious when they recommend somebody.

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.

When you’re a step onto a football field, never is that more evident that the truth is going to get told.

The Internet can be an enlightening place… you have to take it with a grain of salt.

It was just a decision I made from the heart and that was it. I was going to go to Michigan.

Fair Oaks Farm in Indiana – listen, if you have a chance to go there, it’s better than Disney World, because it’s all real.

I’m proud to report that my future will always be bright with the family that I have.

I make no apology for the love of competition.

You’ve got to watch ‘Blue Bloods’ once a week. There’s a message in every show.

That’s a very nice compliment, for somebody to be described as having grit, having some gravel in the gut.

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.

I care very deeply about mental health.

My mom drew a line in the sand and said they would not be putting me on Ritalin. My mom liked my competitive nature, and she stood up for me.

I think books are about people that are retired or at the end of their careers.

COVID is part of our society. Wasn’t caused by football or caused by sports.

I see a lot of people on Twitter that are providing information, communicating, sometimes setting the record straight. Generally, it can be a very good thing.

We want to win every game we play. We want to win them all.

I always think of it like, you’ve really got to tell the truth when you get on the football field. Do you have talent? Have you put in the effort? Are you stronger, are you faster, or are you not? It happens out on the football field, almost like a truth serum.

When I have football dreams, they always finish with a drive at the end of the game. And I’m always playing – I never dream of football where I coach – but I’m not always playing for the same team. Sometimes I’m like a 50-year-old man. Sometimes I’m back in college.

We can’t close ourselves off. We have to connect with the rest of the world.

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.

You’ve got a guy sitting in a big house, making $5 million a year, saying he does not want to sacrifice his time. That is not a kindred spirit to me.

Football players come to enjoy the struggle.

I’ve been on some nice vacations before.

You can’t have experiments that aren’t truthful. You can’t lie about equations. Shouldn’t be lying in football. That’s a message that we should be teaching.

Certain people, coaches, have a profound, positive outcome on somebody’s life. And Al Davis had a profound, positive outcome on my life.

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

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.

Because I am the football coach doesn’t mean I can dictate to people what they believe.

I love the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the greatest racing track that there is, you just love everything about it.