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I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

Woody Hayes

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Woody Hayes
Age: 74 †
Born: 1913
Born: February 14
Died: 1987
Died: March 12
Football Player
Military Officer
Clifton
Ohio
Wayne Woodrow Hayes
Winning
Games
Trying
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Football

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A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.
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When I look in the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me.
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Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play.
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Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.
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The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.
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The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.
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We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.
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We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.
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Nothing that comes easy in this world is worth a damn.
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The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.
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Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.
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A man is always better than he thinks.
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Paralyze resistance with persistence.
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To hell with exciting. I'd rather be drab as hell and win.
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You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward.
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No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.
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The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.
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Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.
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Without winners, there would be no civilization.
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