Jim Harbaugh
The Internet can be an enlightening place... you have to take it with a grain of salt.
My wife and I had dinner in San Francisco four or five times.
Urban Meyer's had a winning record. Really phenomenal record everywhere he's been. But also, controversy follows everywhere he's been.
Because I am the football coach doesn't mean I can dictate to people what they believe.
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.
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.
Football players come to enjoy the struggle.
Sure, the Super Bowl is the greatest prize in our sport. But winning a national championship. That's pretty darn great.
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 believe in rules of law and following rules.
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.
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.
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.
Being with my family is my favorite thing about being back in Michigan.
I understand the magnitude of the NFL as a player for 15 years and for two years as an assistant coach. I know how competitive it is and how hard you have to work.
It was just a decision I made from the heart and that was it. I was going to go to Michigan.
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.
Well, I am never going to forget the players, the loyal coaches and the memories that I have of being a part of the San Francisco 49er team.
In my America, you're allowed to cross the state borders. That's the America I know.
I play in dreams. I don't ever have coaching dreams. But I have football dreams, still.
I'm proud to report that my future will always be bright with the family that I have.
I drank a lot of milk. A lot of milk. Whole milk, though.
When you're a step onto a football field, never is that more evident that the truth is going to get told.
Telling the truth matters. Especially at a college.
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 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.
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.
In a nutshell, I love Michigan.
I've been on some nice vacations before.
All you can be judged on is your record - what your record is overall, what your record is in your conference, and what your record is head-to-head matchups with other teams that you play.
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.
There's a struggle to it. It's a lot of practice. I get a big thrill out of football, don't get me wrong.
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.
I wake up before the end of it. Honest. Cross my heart. That's how my football dreams always go.
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.
There's good genuine down to earth people here in Indiana.
It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch.
Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in.
Certain people, coaches, have a profound, positive outcome on somebody's life. And Al Davis had a profound, positive outcome on my life.
I think books are about people that are retired or at the end of their careers.
You've got to watch 'Blue Bloods' once a week. There's a message in every show.
I wasn't an easy kid to raise.
I love the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the greatest racing track that there is, you just love everything about it.
There is so much injustice in the world. Poverty and war.
I think every American boy should play soccer till the eighth grade. Then they should play football. American football.
I believe in God. I believe in country. I believe in family.
I support people speaking their own mind and saying what they believe.
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.
I'm not a guy that likes to talk about things that happened 35 years ago. I know some do, but I'm not one of them.