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Hayden Fry Biography

John Hayden Fry (born February 28, 1929) is a former American 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 college football record of 232–178–10. Fry played college football at Baylor University. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2003.

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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.

Black, Color, Picture, Player, Powerful, Strength

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

Continue, Ifs, Life, Realistic, Win, Winning

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

Competition, Dance, Dollars, Team, Teams, Town

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

Army, Giving, Nfl, Nice, Offense

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

Coaching, Player, Players, Spend, Talking, Time

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.

Big, Games, Home, Screens, Three

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

College, Preparation, Valuable

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.

Football, Team, Marine, Right, Hard, Marines

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

Giving, Itches, Nfl, Take, Team

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.

Family, Fields, Like, Player, Team

Black is a colour of power and strength.

Black, Colour, Power, Strength

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

Coaches, Five, Influence, Player, Times

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.

Buy, Inherited, Intelligent, Qualified, Running, 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.

Against, Beliefs And Values, People, Turns

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

Kicking, Old Fashioned, Rump, Witnessed

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.

Color, Game, Games, Mentions, Opposing, Wall

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

Headgear, Iowa, Proud, Putting, Thing

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

Football, Football Season, Nfl, Season

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

Football, Game, Games, Life, Like, Sports

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

Changed, Fields, Look, Looks, Winner, Winners