Hayden Fry Quotes

#1. How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

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#2. We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.

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#3. You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

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#4. Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a powerful picture.

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#5. Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

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#6. We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.

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#7. Black is a colour of power and strength.

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#8. The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

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#9. The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

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#10. You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

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#11. When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.

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#12. I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

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#13. In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

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#14. We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.

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#15. I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

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#16. I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.

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#17. We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

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#18. If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.

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#19. We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.

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#20. When it's football season, I'm all football.

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#21. The thing I'm most proud of here at Iowa is putting the ANF on our headgear.

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