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

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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
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Popularity
Football
Winning
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Trying

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Without winners, there would be no civilization.
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Anything easy ain't worth a damn!
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Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.
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The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.
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There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
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You don't get hurt running straight ahead...three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. I will pound you and pound you until you quit.
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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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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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Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
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Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
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It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth
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Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
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It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team.
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I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.
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There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.
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Paralyze resistance with persistence.
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Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard that it would lift both his feet off the ground.
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I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.
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No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.
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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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