Hayden Fry Quotes
"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
(Related: People, Control, Values, Beliefs)
"When it's football season, I'm all football."
- Hayden Fry
(Related: Football)
"Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away."
- Hayden Fry
(Related: Army, Giving, Salvation)
"We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar."
- Hayden Fry
(Related: Dance, Entertainment)
"We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches."
- Hayden Fry
"We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else."
- Hayden Fry
(Related: Time, Coaching, Talking)
"You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking."
- Hayden Fry
(Related: Old)
"The preparation I had in college was the most valuable."
- Hayden Fry
(Related: College, Preparation)
"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
(Related: Money, People, University)
"In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game."
- Hayden Fry
(Related: Life, Football, Play, Rules)
"If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn."
- Hayden Fry
"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
(Related: Home, Time, Games)
"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
(Related: Family, Effect)
"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
(Related: Men, Coach, Football, Marines, Right)
"How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?"
- Hayden Fry
(Related: Coach, Influence)
"We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners."
- Hayden Fry