Quotes from Jim Harbaugh

The high road is the only road I know.

That's not a word that I would put with the two: football and happy. It's a hard, rough, tough sport. Not a lot of fun.

I believe it saves a good half hour to forty-five minutes a day, not having to stand in front of the hangers and the drawers and figure out what to wear.

I think everybody that coaches... there's something about their playing career when they're teaching and explaining... you know, you visualize yourself in that position, then you can explain it.

You have to be prepared to fight and finish your own battles.

Before they had crunchy peanut butter, I would put peanuts in the creamy peanut butter.

There are a lot of great players out there, but this guy - to be able to coach a guy like Jabrill Peppers is a real joy... There's nothing he can't do. It's the darndest thing I've ever seen.

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

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

I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.

People often think that there's a general who makes all the difference, but I would reject that. It's a team effort. It's the power of the wedge.

I have never asked to be the highest-paid coach in football. I have never asked to be paid like a Super Bowl-winning coach. I have never asked for more power.

There's a battle rhythm, a body clock that tells you it's time for football. For me, it's always I know when I get my first football dream. That's my body clock telling me it's time to compete.

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

I make no apology for the love of competition.

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.

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.

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

In my America, you're allowed to cross the state borders. That's the America I know.

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

I was a pretty good kid. Just loud. Loud in the house. Loud everywhere.

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

Telling the truth matters. Especially at a college.

Sometimes people that are standing on third base think they hit a triple. But they didn't.