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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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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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To hell with exciting. I'd rather be drab as hell and win.
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There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
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A man is always better than he thinks.
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The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.
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Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
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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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The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?
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When you're winning - you don't need any friends. When you're losing - you don't have any friends anyway.
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A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.
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We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.
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Paralyze resistance with persistence.
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I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.
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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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Without winners, there would be no civilization.
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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 only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad.
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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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The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.
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Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
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