Quotes by Hayden Fry

• We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.
• 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.
• When it's football season, I'm all football.
• Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.
• We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.
• We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.
• We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.
• You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.
• The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.
• 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.
• In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.
• If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
• We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.