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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
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The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.
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I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.
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You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.
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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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Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.
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The only meaningful statistic is number of games won.
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The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.
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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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No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.
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Paralyze resistance with persistence.
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There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
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Anything easy ain't worth a damn!
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We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.
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Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.
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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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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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It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team.
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In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too - make sure they don't beat themselves.
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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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Without winners, there would be no civilization.
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