Hayden Fry Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

We're going to foul up once in a while, but people need to know we don't do it on purpose. Playing the game with integrity-that's what it's all about.

When I came to Iowa, we had to change everything that was associated with a long-held losing mentality. We had to change the total environment-from the players' conduct downtown, from their record of class attendance, from their way of dealing with people. We had to work with the total individual athlete and reconstruct his values and image.

I didn't have any idea what happened to Ivory. I assumed he went back to California.

I don't want our guys to think it's a matter of life and death. I'd hate to think that the game has reached that point.

He was a tremendous person, a super great guy and a heck of a coach.

He was the one that didn't give us a touchdown, ... He didn't officiate for us again.

He had a good arm, but in their offense, they just didn't throw the ball that much, ... Everything he did was a great surprise to us, I'll put it that way. His first year he proved himself and he got better and better every year.

When he was a member of our football team, he was a very fine athlete, had a wonderful personality, very outgoing - just became a member of the family.

(Having a proven winner returning at quarterback) makes you feel very confident about your offense, ... But the thing that offsets that confidence is the fact that as a coach you're always scared to death that your number one quarterback, who is really outstanding, is going to become injured. Normally, the drop-off to number two is pretty big because they are so good that it's pretty hard for the number two to fill their shoes.

Larry makes a great play and nearly gets the hand off,

Sports is such a great vehicle to promote and bring recognition to not only the whole university, but the state.

We had had one of the biggest economic droughts that the midlands had ever seen, and the farmers needed help. It didn't cost anything much to put the decals on the helmets, but it did a lot of good in directing publicity to the problem. There were stories in many national newspapers and sports magazines.

Everybody in the country was watching. There were so many different things that took place that made it a special evening.

Every season has its own personality, ... In 2002, internally we felt very good about that team, and the way it turned out was not a total shock. The last two years were a little different, and last year may have been one for the books. It will be an interesting race, and hopefully we'll be right in it ... but certainly, a lot of things can happen between now and September, or now and November.

The more down-to-earth things can help a lot.

They didn't give it to us. The official said it was out of bounds. Brent Musburger had the replay. He was in bounds by a good yard.

There were times that Ronnie and I would go out for dinner after we got done practicing, and we'd talk about everything from our families to what we can do to become better coaches. He was a tremendous person, a super great guy and a heck of a coach.

Then he looks up and smiles at me.

It's been fun to get the reaction of visiting coaches to the color of their locker room. Most don't notice it, but those that do are in trouble. . . . When I talk to 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.

I've felt sorry for young people who didn't have an opportunity to play football, because I know what the game can offer.

They call the first time out, he trots off the field laughing, 'can you believe those guys are trying to ice me?'

They kept referring to what was on television. I haven't seen that.

I instructed Chuck to call a time out with six second to go. Chuck called it with two seconds left. I nearly had a heart attack.

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 just hope and pray that the person is OK, and I hope that whatever Ivory did was in the line of duty.

The drug problem. The 16-game schedule. But the biggest problem is management.

Black is a colour of power and strength.

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

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

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

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.