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Hayden Fry
American
Coach
About the author
We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.
Hayden Fry,
American
Coach
#Life
#Will
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,
American
Coach
#People
#Control
#Values
#Beliefs
When it's football season, I'm all football.
Hayden Fry,
American
Coach
#Football
Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.
Hayden Fry,
American
Coach
#Army
#Giving
#Salvation
We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.
Hayden Fry,
American
Coach
#Dance
#Entertainment
We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.
Hayden Fry,
American
Coach
We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.
Hayden Fry,
American
Coach
#Time
#Coaching
#Talking
You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.
Hayden Fry,
American
Coach
#Old
The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.
Hayden Fry,
American
Coach
#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,
American
Coach
#People
#Money
#University
In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.
Hayden Fry,
American
Coach
#Life
#Play
#Rules
#Football
If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.
Hayden Fry,
American
Coach
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,
American
Coach
#Time
#Home
#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,
American
Coach
#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,
American
Coach
#Coach
#Right
#Men
#Football
#Marines
How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
Hayden Fry,
American
Coach
#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,
American
Coach