Hayden Fry Quotes

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

  Hayden Fry

  Sports, Football, Games

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

  Hayden Fry

  Team, Nfl, Giving

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• 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.

  Hayden Fry

  People, Beliefs And Values, Turns

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• 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.

  Hayden Fry

  Running, Team, Intelligent

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

  Hayden Fry

  Nice, Army, Nfl

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• 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.

  Hayden Fry

  Wall, Color, Games

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

  Hayden Fry

  Iowa, Proud

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

  Hayden Fry

  Winning, Realistic, Ifs

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• 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.

  Hayden Fry

  Team, Player, Fields

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• When it's football season, I'm all football.

  Hayden Fry

  Football, Nfl, Football Season

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

  Hayden Fry

  Player, Influence, Coaches

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• 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.

  Hayden Fry

  Powerful, Player, Color

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• 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.

  Hayden Fry

  Football, Team, Marine

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• The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

  Hayden Fry

  College, Preparation, Valuable

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• You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

  Hayden Fry

  Kicking, Old Fashioned

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

  Hayden Fry

  Team, Competition, Dollars

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

  Hayden Fry

  Player, Talking, Coaching

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

  Hayden Fry

  Looks, Fields, Winner

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• 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.

  Hayden Fry

  Home, Games, Three

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• Black is a colour of power and strength.

  Hayden Fry

  Strength, Black, Colour

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