Hayden Fry Quotes

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Talking

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

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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.

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  Topics in Family

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

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  Tags in Professional, Teams

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

  Hayden Fry

• 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

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

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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.

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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

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

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

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

  Hayden Fry

• You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

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

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

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

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Hayden Fry (18)

Birth:	28th February, 1929
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Coach, Football Player

About

John Hayden Fry was born in Eastland, Texas, USA. He is a former American football player and coach. He graduated from Baylor University with a degree in psychology in 1951. He was an American history teacher and assistant football coach at Odessa High School for a year in 1951. He played college football for Baylor University. He served as the head coach at Southern Methodist University, the University of North Texas, and the University of Iowa, compiling a career college football record of 232–178–10. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2003.

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