Jim Harbaugh

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

The high road is the only road I know.

What will happen will happen. What won't happen won't happen.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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