Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Hayden Fry

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Hayden Fry.

Last updated on November 5, 2024.

John Hayden Fry was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Southern Methodist University (SMU) from 1962 to 1972, North Texas State University—now known as the University of North Texas—from 1973 to 1978, and the University of Iowa from 1979 to 1998, compiling a career coaching record of 232–178–10. Fry played in college at Baylor University. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2003.

American - Coach | Born: February 28, 1929

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

Hayden Fry

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

Hayden Fry

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

Hayden Fry

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

Hayden Fry

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

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

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

Hayden Fry

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

Hayden Fry

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

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

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?

Hayden Fry

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

Hayden Fry

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

Hayden Fry

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

Hayden Fry

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

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

Hayden Fry

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