Quotes from Jim Harbaugh

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

Sometimes we'd be sitting down watching TV and my dad would tell me and my brother to run upstairs and grab him something. He would time us. Every time. It was like the world record was on the line. My brother and I both wanted that world record, so we'd run upstairs as fast as we could to see who could get back to my dad first.

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

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

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

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.

There's good genuine down to earth people here in Indiana.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I care very deeply about mental health.

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

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

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.

I drank a lot of milk. A lot of milk. Whole milk, though.

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.

I had a great job at school, St. Francis Elementary, where they asked for somebody to deliver milk, and they said you get a free carton of milk... the thing that I learned was that every kid that was sick or absent from school, I got to drink their milk too. I never missed a day of school.

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

I love football. Love it. Love it. I think it's the last bastion of hope for toughness in America in men, in males.

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.