Hayden Fry Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

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

Black is a colour of power and strength.