John Harbaugh Quotations

We're going to have to start doing a better job with our coverage teams. It's not so much that we aren't tackling. We're not staying in our lanes. All our guys are moving inside, and they're jumping to the outside.

Three words. 'Scoop and score.' I was joking with Matt that I thought the kicker was going to get him for half a second. He didn't appreciate that.

looks OK, but again, I don't think he's at 100 percent. So that's still part of the process, whether he'll be active or not. It looks like he has a chance, but he still has to get better.

He felt he could get the field goal.

He's going to jump right in and play special teams. He's an experienced player. He's going to jump right in and be a core contributor to this team.

He's done a good job at practice. He made nine out of 10 field goals yesterday, so that was a positive.

I think we have set the tone the other way, the negative way. We need to get back to helping our team win, and that's what it's all about.

I think we are not sure if Dirk is going to comb back. He just had surgery a few weeks ago. I think we want to make sure we have our best scenario for the opener and then really just kind of play it be ear from there.

We just couldn't get ourselves out. We couldn't punt ourselves out, or cover ourselves out. Until you can do that, you're not going to playing downhill. So we've got to find a way to make a play. And I don't think our problem is personnel. Our problem is our personnel are not playing well.

You look at special teams and I think there's been a lot of good plays. What we haven't been is consistent.

We need to block better and do a better job scheming,

Bruce did a nice job setting up those blocks. The thing about Bruce that you really like is that he hits it north and south. He runs hard, runs behind his pads. Running backs have a good sense for that.

This is really their last chance. A guy has a last chance to make a team, runs down there and makes a play, and all of sudden shows up. It might swing it one way or another.

It's a great opportunity, though, to teach our guys, and I think that's what it really is. If it was going to happen, it couldn't happen at a better time, the first preseason game. So, you just take it as an opportunity. There is no greater teacher than experience.

The best way to get confidence is to play well and to make plays,

It was kind of like old times. I'm proud of the way the guys are practicing and the way they're playing so hard. They're bringing the wood and that goes a long way in football.

I've just got to do a better job of getting them to play better. We've got to get off blocks. We've got to play better. I've got to do a better job of getting our guys in position to play better and more physically.

I've just got to do a better job of getting them to play better,

I?m just proud of the character of these guys. We have a long way to go and there are a lot of things we need to get better at. But everybody played disciplined and had good self-control. We played well.

He's really quick, really fast, and he's not shy. He hits it up in there - north and south. He's already had a big return so it's going to be a big challenge for us.

I'd say he's still on the road to recovery. He's certainly not 100 percent. We still have some options there if he's not ready on Monday night. But we're preparing as if he's going to be and we've set ourselves up if he's not.

I do believe we have good players and I think those guys can play well. It's just a matter of getting them to play well.

The first thing we're looking to do is change the way we're playing. Play better, block better, be more physical, do a better job of scheming. That's what we need to do.

Be there...care...and put your children first in your life. When you are given the awesome responsibility of being a father, that is the most important responsibility you can have. God wants us to have a loving relationship with our kids and help them grow...just like God's relationship with us.

The main thing is winning. Stats aren't that important, but I think in the end things will work themselves out.

A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.

The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you,

You got the hearts of lions, Good things, bad things, it doesn't matter, that's who you are... That's what carries us from here to where we are going. And everyone's talking about what we couldn't do, and what we wouldn't do and what we shouldn't do, right? You did it week after week, day after day. No matter what someone said about you. Huh, It dosen't matter what they said.

Discipline is not a light switch. Discipline is a way of life.

Ability is God-given, prowess is earned,