Ashton Kutcher: Coaching High School Football Is “a Great Step for Me”
Ashton Kutcher can’t stop raving about his new gig as assistant coach for the freshman football team at L.A.’s Harvard-Westlake School.
“I’m pleased to report that my Harvard Westlake football team is 4-2,” he writes on his MySpace Celebrity page. “I am blessed to step on the gridiron every week with a great group of individuals that understand that the collective force is greater that any individual can ever be.”
The 30-year-old actor — who played football at his high school in Iowa — says he was apprehensive at first.
“I was afraid of the time commitment,” he writes. “I was afraid that I would look stupid. I was afraid that the players wouldn’t listen to my football advice. I was afraid that the advice that I gave wouldn’t be very good.”
Adds Kutcher, “I’ve have many situations in my life where I’ve had an opportunity to extend myself and walked away for many of those reasons. And though coaching a football team is no great step for mankind, I’m finding that it’s a great step for me…
“I’m not there to teach them,” he says. “They are there to teach me.”
